Men in Black 3 Review Thread. *Spoilers*

[Mr Light]

Just got back from seeing it. I found it disappointing. It wasn't bad, but it was just kinda there. Not particularly stand out, villain was just ok (better than Serena though!), not particularly funny, not enough funny aliens in disguise... the whole movie basically rested on the gimmick of Brolin doing a Tommy Lee Jones impression, which was cool and all, but does not a movie make.

 

[Agent Richard07]

Just of out curiosity were the rumors that the movie was setting up a way for Josh Brolin to continue to play K if they do future movies true? I don't mind spoilers.

Not really, but we're talking about time-travel here so anything is possible in a movie series like this.

Hmm, maybe if they could devise a story where the young K leaps into the future. Now there's one helluva paradox---old K buys the farm and the young K leaps into the future to take his place. Thats just so weird.

Or old K can take a youth potion.

 

[Beagleman]

Did I space out and miss it or was the scene with the graffiti-alien from the trailer not in the movie?

 

[Warped9]

Did I space out and miss it or was the scene with the graffiti-alien from the trailer not in the movie?

No, it wasn't in the film. It could end up being a deleted scene in the DVD/BluRay release.

 

[Aldo]

Just got back from seeing it. I found it disappointing. It wasn't bad, but it was just kinda there. Not particularly stand out, villain was just ok (better than Serena though!), not particularly funny, not enough funny aliens in disguise... the whole movie basically rested on the gimmick of Brolin doing a Tommy Lee Jones impression, which was cool and all, but does not a movie make.

I gotta say I agree. Initially I gave it an A, because I did enjoy it. But it's not anything that's staying with me, not like the first film, or even the second one.

Yes, that's right, I enjoyed the second film, maybe it wasn't technically a better film than this one, but at least it had Smith and Jones all throughout it.

 

[Technobuilder]

I still miss Agent L and wish they could've brought back Linda Fiorentino (despite reports of her being difficult to work with) for a role in MIB2 & MIB3.

One of the great things about the Animated Series was the character's inclusion.

 

[Mr Light]

I watched 1 and 2 right beforehand, and 2 wasn't *that* bad. It wasn't particularly good, and the villain was intensely uninteresting, but it had some good gags, and K being the one without a clue was a nice inversion.

 

[Trekker4747]

I still miss Agent L and wish they could've brought back Linda Fiorentino (despite reports of her being difficult to work with) for a role in MIB2 & MIB3.

One of the great things about the Animated Series was the character's inclusion.

She's apparently very hard to work with (just ask Kevin Smith) which is all fine and good... Once you have a real career and have established yourself as being worth putting up with. She wasn't at that point yet and just ended up putting people off.

 

[sonak]

Just got back from seeing it. I found it disappointing. It wasn't bad, but it was just kinda there. Not particularly stand out, villain was just ok (better than Serena though!), not particularly funny, not enough funny aliens in disguise... the whole movie basically rested on the gimmick of Brolin doing a Tommy Lee Jones impression, which was cool and all, but does not a movie make.

this review matches my feelings about it pretty closely.

It's also the least funny of the three, especially the second half, which plays less like sci-fi comedy and more just like a straight sci-fi action movie.

I also thought the end "twist" with Agent K and Agent J was kind of lame and somewhat absurd.(even for a movie of this type)

 

[davejames]

Wow, I just watched the first movie for the first time in a while, and I had forgotten just how lively and energetic Tommy Lee Jones was in that. Yeah he does do the stiff routine at times with Smith, but he also gets pretty goofy at times as well.

He's not nearly as grim and expressionless as he appears in the third movie (or as Brolin plays him in the past).

Shame we couldn't have seen that Jones one last time.

 

[marillion]

^^I honestly think he was written that way for the third movie because that's the impression most people are left with about him after all these years.. He (the character) is getting on in years and they have taken their toll.

I left the movie with a good sense of enjoyment. It was far better than the second, which suffered from the "Let's take the stuff that worked in the first movie and make it BIGGER and LOUDER" syndrome. This movie pared it down and gave us what worked in the first but didn't overdo it.. I was expecting more laughs, but I got caught up in the story and didn't miss them after all was said and done. I found the connection between K and J to be touching and well played out. I did not miss the lack of Frank the Pug or the worm guys playing much of a role at all... The Frank references were a nice touch though.

 

[davejames]

Yeah I really appreciated how clean and simple they kept things for this movie. Especially when most summer movies nowadays (like the Pirates movies) are generally WAY too long, with too many needless subplots and characters and overblown CGI sequences.

 

[nvek86]

Well, it is the longest of the Men in Black films.

 

[The Wormhole]

^^But still significantly shorter than most movies these days. Not that I'm complaining.

Yeah I really appreciated how clean and simple they kept things for this movie. Especially when most summer movies nowadays (like the Pirates movies) are generally WAY too long, with too many needless subplots and characters and overblown CGI sequences.

Pirates of the Carribean. The perfect example of a good movie ruined by horrible sequels.

 

[Maurice]

I was puzzled why they had this giant-ass neuralizer, then it turns out K has a belt mounted one. Uh, what?

I was also wondering...

Spoiler: About the ending

why little J was there with his dad while dad was apparently on duty. I mean, did he leave the kid in the van the whole time he was dealing with the MIB?

I thought it was better than the second one, which was pretty blah and trying too hard.

 

[Mr Light]

Maybe he snuck him in to see the launch?

 

[Trekker4747]

I was puzzled why they had this giant-ass neuralizer, then it turns out K has a belt mounted one. Uh, what?

In MIB2 there's a similar "de-neuralizer" room/device. It's possible the larger room-sized machine provides a more targeted and thorough neuralization than the belt/hand-held devices.

During that sequence I did sort of wonder why J couldn't simply close his eyes to prevent being neuralized. (You'd also think agents would be made immune to the process unless a special "Agent Retirement" setting was used.)

 

[marillion]

^^I've always figured that you can't just close your eyes, in that the neuralizer wavelength can penetrate skin. I also just assumed that the MIB shades were more than just your typical polarized sunglasses...

 

[Trekker4747]

Yeah that makes sense, however in MIB when K uses the neuralizer on the ME he flashes her a couple of times without J having yet put on his glasses and not doing much beyond closing his eyes and covering his eyes a half-second too late. But maybe the higher-powered room-sized one works differently than the smaller hand-held ones.