#Men in black 3 full movie movie
But when this movie finally gets to the heart of Will Smith’s relationship with Tommy Lee Jones/Josh Brolin, and why Agent K is so uptight, it’s both pointless and cheesy. The quest for the truth about the Boglodites and their invasion of Earth is also the search for emotional (and maybe spiritual, I guess) truth about these two men and their silent bond as alien-wranglers. You’re supposed to understand how they went from being Boys in Black to being Men in Black, and the deep emotional traumas that make them the people they are. Not only are most of the movie’s funny bits in the trailer, the trailer contains some funny bits that aren’t in the actual film.Īnd this movie’s ending really wants to be emotional and cathartic, and give you a new insight into Agents J and K. Other things that were set up with sledgehammer obviousness are resolved with the same mallet-to-the-head grace. There are set pieces that literally fail to work as fun action, because the logorrhea swallows up the film’s physical vocabulary and destroys any sense of moving from A to B.īy the time you get to the end, it’s no surprise that huge stuff that was set up in the first act is not paid off in the third act. The movie contradicts itself in bizarre ways. Things are set up that fail spectacularly to pay off.
Other linchpin scenes feel as though the actors are reading the CliffsNotes version of what’s supposed to be going on. There are scenes where it feels as though lines of dialog from other movies have been edited together in no particular order. And when I say nothing holds any water, it’s not just your standard plot holes and random “Kirk gets dropped on the ice planet where Old Spock is” stuff. But because it’s trying to have a serious character arc, and nothing in the film holds any water, the mindlessness actually gets in the way of the fun. The most you could expect from a movie like this is mindless fun. There really is a major “collecting a paycheck” vibe from the two returning stars. Smith seems like he’s trying to get through this by gritting his teeth, and ad-libbing a lot. Meanwhile, Will Smith struggles manfully to fit back into the type of smart-assed character he used to play a lot in the 1990s and has made a point of not playing for a decade. Tommy Lee Jones looks really exhausted and unhappy to be here, which sort of fits with the version of K he’s playing but is no fun to watch. As we mentioned earlier, Brolin is actually pretty great as the younger Agent K, and he damn near carries the film by himself. And instead of finding an emotional core there, it finds a howling void.Īnd that’s where this film really runs into trouble. But what’s particularly horrible about Men in Black 3 is that it tries to delve into the heart of the buddy comedy - the original genre that the first movie tried to cross-fertilize with science fiction - and find the meaning of the relationship between Agents J and K. They’re not supposed to make sense.” Which is fair enough. So at this point you’re probably saying, “So what if this movie makes no sense? It’s a summer blockbuster. This film was rushed into production to take advantage of a tax credit that was expiring, and then cranked out by a studio desperate to make back its investment.) (And meanwhile the producers were arguing with each other and with Barry Sonnenfeld and Will Smith about just what this movie was about, while they were shooting, if recent accounts are to be believed. You can pretty much tell that this movie had no script, and then it had too many writers at once. Battleship is tonnes better than MIB3, pun intended.)īut the level of things not making sense in this movie, even within a particular scene, is really appalling. (Although I’d recommend seeing Battleship over this one, if you really want to see a new movie. MIB3 is probably a better movie than Dark Shadows. Bill Hader has a cute guest spot as Andy Warhol, and there’s a funny blink-and-you-missed it Will Arnett moment. A few of the big special effects set pieces are fun to watch, here and there. And Josh Brolin is pretty much excellent as the younger version of Tommy Lee Jones’ character, Agent K. That said, there are a few good bits in Men in Black 3.
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