Rob Paul

One of the better French films in the last few years. Saw it on DVD and was surprised how much fun it was. The car scenes were very well filmed and the supporting cast made the most from the script. Compared to 'the fast and the furious' I'd take Taxi every time.

Atkinson's best work was always in his Bean and Blackadder tv series.

But from 1991 to 1997 he appeared in 17 Barclaycard adverts as the bumbling 'secret spy' Richard Latham. Johnny English is basically the same inept spy brought to the big screen. So the concept of this daft English Spy came before Austin Powers, and isn't some sort of austin ripoff as many people think. The ads were quite popular and occasionally funny.

The film uses many of the ads concepts to good effect, but it's a hit and miss film. Enjoyable, but instantly forgetable. And that's exactly what the filmmakers were intending.

This is a truly enthralling drama. I'd never really cared much for Jack Lemmon, but in this film he is terrific, as are all the cast. Baldwin is only in the film 10 minutes, but it's far and away the best work he's done...heck, it's the only thing I remember him actually being in!

David Mamet was in sparkling form when he wrote this.