Really the only saving grace of Men In Black III is Josh Brolin's performance as Young Agent K (he's a 50 year old man playing a 29 year old man!) and Jemaine Clemente playing Boris "don't call him the Animal."
The film for the most part misses with its "jokes." Why bring up the race issues of the 60s unless you plan on making it a dark film? Instead of being in touch with society, it comes off as being out of touch and into stereotypes. It's barely mentioned after the dark time of the 60s and after Agent J stole a car to try and find Boris. The Chinese restaurant being a location where a Men In Black fight just does not seem to go anywhere. Agent J goes to drink chocolate milk for time displacement headaches. Ha. Ha.
The ending of the film just seems to be a parody of the first one rather than a bad knock on it like the second film was.
Why does Will Smith have a job when he is obviously not funny? Maybe he has never been funny and caters to the Bad Boys Michael Bay vision of film audiences. Especially when the film revolves around him and Tommy Lee Jones is not in the film!
There could have been a moment where J feels bad K is gone. However, instead they insert this random scene about J's watch that was never mentioned before.
Why did everything revert back to normal after
Also, there is a certain aspect of Agent morality when it comes to killing Boris instead of capturing him that is never explored.
Also, time devices seem to be under explored. Why doesn't everybody go to this guy to go back in time?
There are two main elements that make Men In Black work.
1) The interactions between Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Will Smith sucks in this film.
2) The witty comical observations of culture. Even the Andy Warhol joke makes it seem that Men In Black is just out of touch with art, because it is trying to be entertainment.
Oh well. As I said before. I hate summer blockbusters, especially in 2013. I wish neuralizers were real so I could forget this franchise. Oh well. Hopefully, they can bring back that darker toned cartoon.
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