"Just 'cos you see a black man in a nice car, don't mean it's stolen. I mean this one is..."
Ten years after the disappointing Men in Black 2 and fifteen (really!) years since Men in Black, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are donning the black suits and Ray-bans once again. Agent J (Smith) and Agent K (Jones) learn that the alien murdering Boris the Animal (Jermaine Clement) has escaped his maximum security LunarMax prison cell on the Moon, 43 years after K arrested him in
I’m a big fan of the first Men in Black film and will watch pretty much anything Will Smith is
in so I was excited at the prospect of a third instalment of the franchise. Unfortunately
I left disappointed. Quality wise this is much closer to Men in Black 2 than Men in
Black. My two main problems were that it wasn’t funny enough and that it
was really boring. Will Smith is a naturally funny man and has bags of charisma
but here his jokes fall flat and he doesn’t seem cool enough. Jermaine Clement,
who I travelled over 400 miles round trip to see perform as part of Flight of the Concords was also a little
bit disappointing although his accent was very good he was neither funny or
scary enough. I only laughed twice and these were both at jokes regarding the
differing racial attitudes of the 60s and now. As for the story, yes there are
alien bad guys and the threat of the Earth’s destruction and the time
travelling stuff was good but I wasn’t gripped.