Men in Black: International is the newest entry in the MIB franchise and the first without Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in the film, this time Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson are the new MIB agents in London who are tasked to track down a powerful weapon that could destroy the World courtesy of the Hive but their boss played by Liam Neeson could complicate matters.
Men in Black: International is boring to sit through, in fact it is the most boring movie I have sat through in cinemas so far this year and while I was sitting there watching it being projected in front of me I just got bored of the whole damn thing as so much of it just lands with this giant thud on screen.
Firstly Chris Hemsworth a man who is supremely talented, is charismatic as all hell and is a gifted comedy actor (his comedic timing is amongst the best in the business right now) and yet, and yet he is AWFUL in this, his comedy timing falls flat on its face, he constantly talks in an annoying way and his line readings just drag on and on and on some more and this is a man who can be great in movies be it Ron Howard’s criminally underrated Rush from 2013 or Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame and Thor: Ragnarok even, its just such a fucking waste of a magnetic talent.
Secondly Ms Thompson who also is very very charismatic actress is trying to do her best and seems to actually want to try unlike Chris who pretty much either gave up, couldn’t give it his all or just didn’t care enough well Ms Thompson does try and some of her charisma does shine through at times but for the most part it just feels like she’s in a fucking straight jacket instead of an MIB jacket for most of the movie and I just sat there thinking “Just let her out of the fucking straight jacket and then she can take over this goddamn movie” again just an awful waste of a promising future talent.
Thirdly the story here is very very weak, the Aliens which have been a real highlight of the previous 3 films in terms of what cool designs are we going to see on screen barely feature in this movie at all, there are hardly any Aliens in a goddamn Men in Black movie only the one new one Prawny voiced by Mr Kumail Nanjiani and he is fun in spots but he wasn’t enough there should have been more Aliens in this movie and as for the overall story again its so weak, it just plods along with little energy or comic invention and just plays out like an action film with a few laughs treated as a bloody afterthought.
And look I like F. Gary Gray fine enough as a filmmaker, Straight Outta Compton in 2015 was a terrific film but he was wrong, wrong, wrong and dead wrong even to direct this movie, where was someone who could direct comedy and handle the visual effects requirements in a way that doesn’t make you audience just think their watching someone on a bloody green screen stage with the effects work pasted on in post, they weren’t here and it shows.
And so that was Men in Black: International a movie that just bored me to no fucking end and it is easily one of my least favorite films of 2019 so far, .5 out of 5.
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