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Rated: 2.5/5 Aug 24, 2022 Full Review M.N. Miller Ready Steady Cut Men In Black: International is a sterile, stodgy, nondescript, and overall boring spin-off of a beloved (but not really) franchise.
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- F. Gary Gray
- PG-13
- Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Action
Reviews. Men in Black: International. Action. 115 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2019. Monica Castillo. June 14, 2019. 4 min read. Just because two stars are brilliantly paired together in one movie, it doesn’t guarantee their chemistry will carry over to another.
Jun 13, 2019 · Dir: F Gary Gray; Starring: Tessa Thompson, Chris Hemsworth, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Kumail Nanjiani (voice). Cert 12A, 115 mins. The latest Men in Black film, following seven years after...
Jun 28, 2019 · By the time you’re reading this, it will already have been established that Men in Black: International is a ‘box-office disappointment’ in the US, that it has taken a critical drubbing and that it is considered an unsuccessful reboot of a familiar intellectual property.
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By Joe Skrebels
Updated: Apr 28, 2020 10:29 pm
Posted: Jun 12, 2019 1:00 pm
Men in Black: International isn’t a reboot, but it acts like one. The original movie’s plot beats are out in full force here: a young recruit is paired with an aloof, experienced agent and immediately gets embroiled in a world-threatening mystery that centres around a landmark built for a World’s Fair. There are chrome guns, cars with red buttons, fist-sized aliens and Frank the Pug. If any of the core characters from the original were actually in this, they’d probably make a quip about how familiar all this is. Yet somehow, in spite of all of that, International manages to fundamentally misunderstand practically everything that made the original film so endearing, and so enduring.
It should become a fish-out-of-water comedy twice over at this point - American human in an English alien world - but even the promise of seeing how Men In Black operates in a different country is immediately dulled. The HQ looks fundamentally similar, and the only concession to the London setting is that Liam Neeson’s branch head is called High T for no given reason other than the horrible pun. It’s here that Chris Hemsworth’s H joins proceedings, an agent who’s already achieved enough to be heralded alongside J and K from the original films, and seemingly been burned out by hubris.
It’s telling the biggest laugh in the film is a direct reference to Hemsworth’s work as an Avenger.
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Hemsworth and Thompson are undoubtedly charming together, bringing their Thor: Ragnarok double act into a new setting, right down to the former’s accent. Sadly, the writing doesn’t live up to their talents. M’s given almost no time to be wowed by her new surroundings, giving us no time to connect to her before she’s already a more-than competent agent. H, on the other hand, should be pure comic relief, a slapstick James Bond always succeeding by failing. Sadly, the jokes just don’t work, regularly too obvious or too much of a non-sequitur to land. It’s telling the biggest laugh in the film is a direct reference to Hemsworth’s work as an Avenger.
And before you know it, the film’s skipped off to Marrakech, where M and H pick up a CGI sidekick, Pawny (played by a spectacularly uninterested-sounding Kumail Nanjiani) for no real reason. The globe-trotting exploits are clearly meant to lend another Bond-like aspect, but really just leave the film feeling unrooted. This series has always felt best when it plays with a known location, showing you how an alien society could work among humdrum real life, transforming the expected into the unexpected. International doesn’t give you a chance to see anything like that for more than a few minutes before the plot’s moved on and left any potential jokes behind.
More than anything else, International feels soulless. The first Men In Black was pleasingly grimy; its aliens wobbling around under Rick Baker’s exquisite prosthetics, heads exploding in fountains of slime, squid children puking on agents after traumatic tentacle births. At times, it was a gross-out comedy for the Nickelodeon generation. By comparison, International feels as sleek and clean as its weaponry, and loses a lot for it. The satirical bite is gone from the dialogue, the emotional beats artificially saccharine rather than truly sweet. Worst of all, the aliens feel unthreatening, unsurprising, and unremarkable.
That lack of tension pervades the entirety of International. It feels like Men In Black by numbers, a trudge from one set-piece to the next untidily glued together by weak gags and sharp suits, never getting us to care about its characters or the world-changing stakes. In fact, like the first film’s Bug bad guy, it feels as though something unfamil...
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MiB: International tries to invoke the original, but fails to match its key achievements: it isn’t funny or exciting.
Joe Skrebels
Jun 13, 2019 · Reviews. Men In Black: International Review. Newly recruited Agent M (Tessa Thompson) is seconded to MIB’s London office and partnered with swaggering hotshot Agent H (Chris Hemsworth). But...
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Jun 14, 2019 · Ultimately, Men in Black: International is a fine movie. It has its moments where everything aligns and the movie provides some genuinely fun entertainment. But at other points, it feels as though even International is slogging through being a Men in Black franchise installment.
