Men in black 3
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Emma Thompson
At: PVR & others
Rated: 7/10
Well, there’s Agent O and there’s Agent K. So, one expected the film to be, well, OK. The good part about Men In Black 3, however, is that it is much more than just OK, which, in itself is quite an unexpected achievement if you go by the limp listlessness of its 2002 predecessor MIB2.
From 1997 to 2012, these men have come of age with space guns, neuralisers and, of course, 3D. Now 3D for going into the summer of 69 where even Andy Warhol is a caged agent and hippies are going around all glazed and unconcerned about America’s epoch moment — the launch of man to the moon — is somewhat of a waste.
But that’s just a side niggle easily ignored. MIB3 is not about technology as much as it is about the delectable leap into a past caught on reel delectably. As Will Smith, with all his one-line humour, takes the jump from “really high” to a bottomless pit of time travel, you get goose bumps of all kinds. For, MIB3 comes in with a whole lot of happenings from a land where aliens co-exist with human population.
You have a giant fish in a wrestle with Smith, you have an ET who can look into all ages of future, there is Agent J on a trip to reverse history, save his mate and save the world; there is also Boris the (yuck) animal who escapes his lunar prison to get back his limbs from another era on planet Earth.
Yes, Smith is there to tickle your ribs with his breezy one-liners, his do-good demeanour, his flipside story and all the glue he can find to stitch up this three-quel. But, the real revelation is the old-world charm that Josh Brolin revs up while playing the younger Tommy Lee Jones of the 60s. So seamlessly he gets into Jones’ skin that you need to harshly remind yourself that this is not Jones but Brolin’s brilliance at play.
The time travel techniques, the capturing of the retro era and the varied depiction of the aliens are only some of the many highlights of this film which does take some time to take off but once it does, you are one a journey of complete entertainment. There is action, there is comedy, there is technology, there is vivid imagination and, yes, there is a dollop of sentimentality too that binds all this rollicking hocus pocus together for a purely fun trip you might be wanting to take with Will and his antics.
Source: Published in The Sunday Pioneer, 27 May, 2012
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