Men in Black: International (2019)
Directed by F. Gary Gray
The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.
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Yet with the movie now having underperformed at the Box Office, even compared to Men in Black 3 (which a lot of people don’t even remember seeing despite it being one of the highest grossing movies of 2012), it seems that if trying to have a more forward-looking and less expensive approach it didn’t work out.
Then there are the ungoogleable nicknames: Will Smith’s J, Tommy Lee Jones’ K, and now, in Men in Black: International, Chris Hemsworth’s H and Tessa Thompson’s M. For some Men in Black, though, the agency’s erasure of its employees’ personal identities eventually becomes a bridge too far.
The feeling of disconnect — of characters who say they’re in conflict, but don’t have many real conflicts, of tonally diverse elements patched together into a loose quilt, of characters that don’t cohere and are just around to snipe in jokes — extends throughout every aspect of Men In Black: International, but it’s most prominent in the editing, which often feels as though entire scenes are missing, as if F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton, The Fate of the Furious) hoped no one would notice as long as things moved fast enough.
Men in Black: International is the first installment of the franchise to not feature its two core cast members -- Smith and Jones -- or its original director, Barry Sonnenfeld .
Directed by F. Gary Gray ("Straight Outta Compton," "Law Abiding Citizen," "The Italian Job," "A Man Apart," "The Negotiator," "Friday").
Director F. Gary Gray ( Straight Outta Compton , The Fate of the Furious ) borrows heavily from another franchise with impossibly glamorous government employees—the James Bond series—to envision a British branch of the Men in Black, one weakened by infighting and complacency.
The feeling of disconnect — of characters who say they’re in conflict, but don’t have many real conflicts, of tonally diverse elements patched together into a loose quilt, of characters that don’t cohere and are just around to snipe in jokes — extends throughout every aspect of Men In Black: International, but it’s most prominent in the editing, which often feels as though entire scenes are missing, as if F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton, The Fate of the Furious) hoped no one would notice as long as things moved fast enough.
Director F. Gary Gray (“Straight Outta Compton”) does not stray outside the “MIB” guidelines.
F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton) directs an entirely new batch of humans in black as they don sunglasses, erase memories and suss out an alien conspiracy in their ranks, this time on European soil.
Director F. Gary Gray (The Italian Job, Straight Outta Compton , The Fate of the Furious ) allows the adept cast to breathe a little new life into the franchise, if he doesn’t totally restore it to vibrant health.