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| After a decade-long hiatus, the MIB franchise goes in a brand new direction - back in time. |
Men in Black 3 was simply doomed from the start, desperately
attempting to reacquaint moviegoers (or more-so subject moviegoers) to what was
already an outdated and lifeless franchise. Times have certainly changed since
the late 90s as has the quality of cinematic competition. Will Smith just
doesn’t have the star power that he had a decade ago with his trio of revolving
summer blockbusters: Independence Day, Men in Black, and Wild Wild West.
And Tommy Lee Jones is no better off, straying from his slew of Oscar-bait performances for the sole purpose of revisiting campy nostalgia. Back as MIB Agents J and K, Smith and Jones once again don their signature black suits and Ray-Bans ready to take down intergalactic criminal, Boris the Animal (Jermaine Clement) hell bent on altering the space time continuum. So far, the plot doesn’t sound too bad, a bit derivative, but surely not dreadful. After all, Back to the Future and Austin Powers are deep in the time-travel genre and look how it enhanced those franchises.
And Tommy Lee Jones is no better off, straying from his slew of Oscar-bait performances for the sole purpose of revisiting campy nostalgia. Back as MIB Agents J and K, Smith and Jones once again don their signature black suits and Ray-Bans ready to take down intergalactic criminal, Boris the Animal (Jermaine Clement) hell bent on altering the space time continuum. So far, the plot doesn’t sound too bad, a bit derivative, but surely not dreadful. After all, Back to the Future and Austin Powers are deep in the time-travel genre and look how it enhanced those franchises.