More often than not, the film keeps tight and lively, engaging you and providing a memorable moment time and again, and yet, with that said, believe it or not, it's only a matter of time before slow spells ensue and plague the film with, not necessarily dullness, but a kind of blandness that contradicts much of the film's momentum, takes you out of the film, making certain moments fall flat as easy to forget, even by the film's final act, and with a few of those moments being key expository ones, the film's substance loses some bite, and along with it, your full investment in character and conflict. It's not too terribly hard to see where this plot is going, and in a situation like that, compensation is needed, and just that can be expected in this film, though not exactly thoroughly, because as entertaining as this film is, it doesn't always sustain your attention as firmly as it should, partially because it's not quite as consistent in momentum as it should be. Still, as entertaining as this film is, it doesn't quite make it to generally rewarding, as you would indeed need to be neuralized to forget some problems.Īs I'll get more into later on in this review, this film has quite a few unique touches, in story and other aspects, having just enough originality to sustain your investment in it as a reasonably unique film, and yet, in too many areas, the film will plummet into considerable very '90s conventionalism, particularly when it comes to plotting, whose basic story concept is rich with the unique touches in question, yet crafted into a formulaic plotline with only so much subtlety and only so much that catches you off-guard, thus rendering the film, well, kind of predictable. Well, I would either do that or ask for an autograph, because Jones is quite the actor, or at least quite the charisma who, when teamed up with Will Smith's charisma, helps in making for one fun film. At the very least, I was expecting a scene in which Agent M startles and gets blown away by an armed Agent J, not necessarily because would be mistaken for an alien, but because a sneaking Tommy Lee Jones' face would freak me out to the point of triggering fight-or-flight response too. I kept waiting for that one sequence in which a mothership touches down and releases the leader of Jones' Agent M character's race, Richard Nixon, who then proceeds to exchange with M the trademark symbol for the Nixonians, that two-finger wave thing. No, now that I think about it, I shouldn't have been confused, not just because Tommy Lee Jones is about as black as Will Smith is, but because Tommy Lee Jones must be a special figure in this agency, seeing as how he's a man in black, even though he himself is an alien, or at least looks like one. Oh no, wait, Jones is teaching Smith, I just got confused because I figured that this agency's ranking system was built around how much black was on a man, in which case, Smith would decidedly outrank Jones. Okay, now, I'm willing to buy this premise about a secret agency that combats and osbscures alien lifeforms, but really, I find it a touch hard to fully buy into a young buck like Will Smith being the one who trains an older dude like Tommy Lee Jones. While investigating a series of unregistered close encounters, the MIB agents uncover the deadly plot of an intergalactic terrorist who is on a mission to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies currently in residence in New York City.ĭolby A, Dolby Stereo, DTS, SDDS, Surround, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital Working for a highly funded yet unofficial government agency, Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) and Jay (Will Smith) are the Men in Black, providers of immigration services and regulators of all things alien on Earth. They are the best-kept secret in the universe.
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