Men in Black 3 (2012)

I saw MIB1, didnt see MIB2 and so skipped straight to MIB3 where it has been 14 years since the first film and it sees J jump to 1969 to prevent Boris 'the destroyer' from killing K. Now this is a pretty simple premise but it’s more entertaining than I am making it sound. It’s quite hard to try and find the feel of a film 10 years after the previous one but somehow they manage it. This was the first 3D film which I wasn’t annoyed by wearing the stupid glasses. There were some ok moments in 3D but I am still yet to be won over by 3D. I always find the 3D works best with the adverts that they stick on before the film starts and whilst that was the case here there were a few moments which I thought were good.

Will Smith was quite good in this and one of the main problems I have with Smith is that he can be annoying and he reigns its back in this film. I thought that he was outshone by Josh Brolin who was outstanding in this. I thought at times that his voice had been dubbed to make him seem more like Tommy Lee Jones but this wasn’t the case. As the 1969 K, he was great in every scene he was in. Tommy Lee Jones on the other hand was more of a cameo star than anything else. He appears at the beginning and at the end and whilst his scenes were enjoyable, I felt that I could have done with more TLJ but I suppose the constraints of the plot made this impossible.

The film move alongs at a good pace and never slows down or gets bored with whats going on. I felt that it was a believeable plot and had a baddie that quite impressive and the threat was credible. Only thing that let it down was at the beginning when Nicole Scherzinger made a cameo as some PVC clad lover of Boris. Pointless. Could have cast anyone but that’s a minor quibble. A lot of people seem to be down on MIB3 but I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised with it and though it isn’t a patch on the first film I still thought it was a good effort and far better than I thought it would be. I left the cinema and was hoping that there might be a fourth one but also hoping that it isn’t 2022 before we get that.