Men in Black: International

'Men in Black: International' done more for me than anticipated, it makes for a fairly good reboot in my opinion. Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson reteam up (after the MCU) to solid effect, with Liam Neeson and Kumail Nanjiani in as sturdy support. The plot does take an extremely obvious trajectory, there is nothing to work out as the viewer in this one. That isn't a thing that bothers me personally, a film can still be suitably entertaining and this is that. Still, it is lacking that necessary extra oomph to become something greater. As for special effects, it is a mixed bag. For the aliens and all that it looks pretty good, it done the job for me anyway. However, some of the locations do look quite bad; e.g. Paris at the beginning. It evidently didn't affect my enjoyment, it is distracting when it rears its head though.

Good idea - let's refreshen the cast, relocate to jolly-old England and hopefully we can re-ignite this tiring format by putting a devious fifth columnist amongst the "MIB" organisation to cause mayhem and mischief. Well, I'm afraid they were just plain wrong! All of that might have worked if the special effects and alien creepy-crawlies were supported by a decent STORY. Alas, not to be. This bumbles along entirely supported by Chris Hemsworth - and there are limits to even his charismatic skills. Please let this be an end, or we will all be heading to the transporter pad with our Marlboro Lights!

Well... this was another sequel that no one asked for, at all and we can probably honestly say that this is a huge reason why it flopped. I had absolutely no interest in seeing another sequel of MIB, especially one without Will Smith, and especially one that is gender-swapped and rests closer to the reboot mark than the remake mark. Which are all reasons why I didn't see it until it came around for free. And as predicted while all but rebooting the franchise, it also attempts to make a political statement with the jokes coming from "laugh because you agree with this" type of humor, which rarely actually lands. And as a result it feels like SNL doing MIB in a sequel no one asked for.