Men in Black 3 Review

The Men in Black are back for a third big screen outing in Men in Black 3 with the three main individuals back in the saddle (director Barry Sonnenfeld plus actors Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones).

The new movie brings s back Agent J and Agent K in a new case against an alien with a grudge against K (Jones). Things would have been a lot more simple if not for the alien getting his hand on some time-travel tech which screws up the time-space continuum. Agent J follows the intergalactic perp to 1969 to try to foil the assassination. 

Okay here’s my take:

MIB 3 is one of the best movies so far in the series. I’d like to say that while the original MIB was great and MIB II was so-so, MIB III took some initiatives in fleshing out more details about both J and K.

Josh Brolin also plays the role of the Young Agent K. You have to admit that the resemblance between Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin share an uncanny similarity in this movie. This is also the second movie where the two topbill but are never seen together on screen. More on Brolin’s acting later.



Boris (the Animal) is also an intriguing and menacing character. I thank Executive Producer Steven Spielberg for adding a really good nemesis in this outing. Don’t get me wrong the first movie had Edgar who was more creepy and disgusting rather than scary. Lara Flynn Boyle’s Serlina looked great on screen but she was never MIB-villain material. Truth be told, Ben 10’s alien villains had a lot more screen formidability compared to the MIB II baddies. Again Boris is a visual creep so it adds a lot of meat into the material plus Jermaine Clement's take on this vile creature was also thumbs up.

Press Release: New and Retro Aliens Invade "Men In Black 3"

Master of make-up effects Rick Baker’s inventive (and Oscar®-winning) aliens are a vital part of previous Men In Black films, so it’s no surprise that the legendary artist returns for Columbia Pictures' new comedy adventure Men In Black 3.



For Baker, working on the Men In Black movies is especially fulfilling because the films inevitably require him to design in so many different ways: “Some films are straight makeup – say, we’ll do age makeup. Others will call for fake bodies or heads. Others, we’ll make animatronic characters and puppets. The Men In Black movies involve all of those things – and I got to design for the computer-generated stuff as well. We ended up making about a hundred aliens for this movie, and you could have made a whole story about any one of them.”



Director Barry Sonnenfeld says that Baker’s sensibilities mesh perfectly with the “play it straight” tone he brings to the rest of the movie. “You don’t want to design weird, wacky aliens,” he says. “If the aliens are funny, you want it to come out of observational humor, or their attitude, or the audience thinking, ‘Oh, that’s interesting.’”