Men in Black International - A Waste of Time

Since I recently reviewed Ghostbusters 2016, an unwanted, unnecessary and unpopular attempt to reboot an old franchise with a spin-off story and a cast of inferior actors, I thought it was

time

for a change of pace, so this

time

I'll review oh oh. The Men in Black series was a silly and occasionally entertaining trilogy that began in the late '90s, making the most of the star power of Will Smith as a natural comedy talent and Tommy Lee Jones as a craggy old face to create a quirky comedy. It was fun and unique, it didn't demand much from the viewer, but it was decent escapist entertainment I guess, but some good things have to come to an end and when the third movie ended, people were very happy to leave it. there.

However, the Sunnis because there is no such thing as a dead franchise for them, only bloated and decaying corpses waiting to be returned to a horrible state of quasi-life which clearly takes us along with some men dressed in

international

black

, a futile attempt, half-hearted and ultimately doomed to reboot failure. the men in

black

series for a new generation of fans even though Men in Black 3 only came out seven years earlier, man I have underwear that's older than that now, whatever the outcome here is that the movie is Boring, unimaginative, mediocre, low effort, and Basically, it was a

waste

of a mostly talented cast to get through it in order to do this review.

It was an absolute task that really made me question why I do these things. Oh yes, drinking money anyway fits and let's start, the movie starts with a little. a girl named Molly who sees an alien one night, but then the men in black show up and neutralize her parents so they forget about everything, however, they don't bother doing it with Molly because, well, her parents claim that she is sleeping even though he is sleeping. literally standing at their bedroom window in full view with the lights on, looking directly at the street where they are standing as if all they had to do was look up and they would see it completely, you would think they would go up and check and maybe a neuralizer anyway.

Just in case, but now the script needs the rest of the plots to develop, so we fast forward 20 years and Molly has become Tessa Thompson and dedicated her entire life to finding the men in black because she really wants to work for them, right? and because? Would you like to work for the same people who brainwashed your parents? You know absolutely nothing about them, their motivations or their ultimate goal, for all you know, they could be part of a conspiracy to pave the way for an alien invasion, they could be planning destruction. for the sake of the entire human race, so hack the Hubble Space Telescope because that's what you can totally do without anyone noticing and use it to track an alien spacecraft that enters the solar system and lands a few blocks away From his office.

Lucky! It was just a quick taxi ride away and not in the middle of Siberia or the Afghan mountains or Methyl Shai being Scottish. Racing is pretty easy when your entire plot is based on convenience, so she goes to the landing site and follows an alien to the men at black headquarters and tries to sneak in but they capture her because apparently they're not complete idiots, there is when he meets the boss, the woman in black, and asks them to register because he has no friends or family or interests or goals of any kind outside of this.

A goal, she is a fascinating character, literally her only reason for existing is to join an organization, she knows next to nothing about replanning and what's even better, the boss in black says she does. Wow, that's it, she doesn't need any training or detailed evaluation. She does not need to be vetted in any way to ensure that she is a viable candidate. I mean, I suppose she's shown initiative to get here, but is that really all it takes for her to also be given one of the most important jobs on the planet? Isn't it just as bad from a character development standpoint if you didn't show him being tested or working hard or struggling to pass the tests necessary to make the cut, in other words, earn the right to be? where she says, oh, what you have to do is ask for the job and that's a great message to send to her audience.

Rae's racing dog walker. I'll fix her car soon. I think it's worth noting that Molly's only motivation. in life was to become a man in black and she achieves this goal in the first 15 minutes of the movie, there is literally nothing else she can do for the rest of the movie, there are no other goals she fights for, there is no secrets you are trying to discover. There are no wrongs that she is trying to avenge, in other words, there is nothing for us to invest in what is an incredible script. This is so you know that she has been given the job she always wanted.

She is transferred to the London branch where she manages to partner with Chris. Hemsworth because she thinks her character's motivation is even more incredible. Chris Hemsworth was involved in a mission a couple of years ago fighting off an alien invasion from a race called the Hive and has since become a happy-go-lucky renegade who plays by his own rules, so his first mission is to encounter an alien. in a nightclub for some reason and the whole scene lasts about 10 minutes longer than it should and features a dance offer that I didn't mind at all. with Sony movies and pointless dance scenes until a pair of alien assassins kill him and he pressures our Somali MacGuffin to put it away.

Senior Agent Liam Neeson is angry about this and worries that there may be a mole inside the Men in Black, so he transfers Chris Hemsworth to desk juhi while the investigators say no, everything will be fine, so he convinces Molly to accompany them to Marrakech to follow another lead as to why Marrakech because the movie is called Men in Black International, which basically means the script jumps to as many exotic locations as possible. to try to distract yourself from the fact that none of this makes sense, don't try to use that brain of yours, just enjoy the beautiful people and the beautiful scenery, like in this scene where Molly is making noise and everyone around her because I saw them right in an alien space break, but since three seconds later they were traveling through the streets in front of hundreds of people and she doesn't care at all, it was worth it for that joke, although they get cornered by a man anyway. in Black who has been sent to bring them to escape on the alien space bike and teleport to the beautiful exotic deserts, that's where the bull ship MacGuffin falls into the hands of an alien arms dealer who forces them to go after him.

She probably lives in another beautiful exotic location, so there are some fights and probably the only joke in the movie that actually lands referencing another, better Chris Hemsworth movie. I'm not sure that's a comparison you want to invite men to. Black anyway Molly wins her fight against the arms dealer, but her alien bodyguard has them at gunpoint until Molly remembers that he is the same alien she protected 20 years earlier. Wow, what are the odds? Isn't it great when the entire script is based on it? around a series of crazy coincidences that way, you don't have to think of clever ways to advance the plot, because the alien bodyguard remembers her, that's enough to make him turn against her employer and help them escape.

Holy, this guy is your bodyguard. who literally turned traitor for a person he knew for five minutes like two decades before isn't exactly a great judge of Aryan character anyway they retrieved the bull ship MacGuffin and returned to base for a hero's welcome, courtesy of Liam Neeson, but not everything is as it seems when Molly discovers that Chris Hemsworth was neutralized after his famous mission a couple of years ago and that the real traitor is actually Liam Neeson, so lucky she's around to make these crazy leaps of deductive logic. eh, because you already know why he has his piece.

We piece together important clues that have been sprinkled throughout the script when you can hover to come to a conclusion I immediately think I can smell shit so they go to Paris to arrest Liam Neeson in exotic locations and we find out he's actually an impostor alien who works for the hive. and because this movie has absolutely nothing even close to the original ideas, he plans to open a celestial portal to his home world allowing the rest of the hive to pass through and invade earth, but then Mali turns the MacGuffin into a big weapon. and he blows it up and that's the end of the movie it ruins me, I get upset, I would say now what a useless

waste

of a hundred million dollars, this was do you have any idea how many dances I could get from Tatiana for that amount of money?

Okay I will. I'll tell you one thing they didn't spend any money on and that was the CGI, aside from Justice League this movie really has some of the cheapest, ugliest, most unconvincing special effects I've seen in years. Jesus MX Black Panther looked like a visual masterpiece. the plot meanders from place to place with no sense of rhythm or urgency, there's no sense that anything significant is building up or the characters are facing the same limits or a resource limitation or are particularly concerned about whatever is basically happening . all the focus is on retrieving the MacGuffin that can blow things up, there's a lot of busy work where they find it and then lose it again by the most ingenious means possible, then have to go find it again it's basically a flimsy excuse to bounce around.

From one exotic location to another and I guess you're not supposed to think about why you're there or what's going on, there's a subplot about a mole within the men in black, but if you don't find out the truth within the first half hour then you are dumber than a character in the last jedi talking about characters there is absolutely nothing in the way of development on the part of a man or hemsworth molly is basically on a trip reacting to things when they happen she is not striving towards a goal larger. That we can get behind, she's just there doing her job, in fact her only real goal was to become a man in black and she accomplishes it with absolutely zero difficulty in the first 15 minutes.

Part of the fun of the original Men in Black was watching Will. Smith struggled to fit into an organization and culture with which he was not at all compatible. He was a classic outsider. He thought that he spoke and acted completely differently than his fellow highly trained but uptight and predictable agents. He was not particularly intelligent or well educated, but he was resourceful and resourceful and, as a result, he was able to find unorthodox solutions to difficult problems. Molly, on the other hand, seems to fit right in as if it's the most natural thing in the world for her, we're told she has exceptionally high marks in every category because you know, of course she does, but we're never shown anything to back this up, no. we can see her training or learning to use advanced weapons, she has no difficulty adapting to a new role she doesn't clash with anyone she doesn't question anything or act surprised or surprised by what she sees I have no idea who she really was or what her story was about personality because she doesn't have one that I can't empathize with her struggle because she doesn't have one.

I couldn't support her motivation because she doesn't have one. Chris Hemsworth isn't much better. His character is frivolous and arrogant and doesn't really take anything seriously, which makes me feel happy. I think he should have been the upstart new recruit from the start and Molly should have been the strict veteran who is a saint at whipping him into shape. There's something about him being a changed man after a previous mission, implying that some sinister change has taken place. It took place in it, but it leads nowhere and means nothing, like everything else. I guess the biggest seller of this movie was seeing Hemsworth and Thompson pair up again after the success of Thor Ragnarok.

The difference is that the movie had a good, solid script. -established characters and let's be honest, it's not like these two are the De Niro and Pacino of our generation and seeing them join forces again isn't the cinematic event their agent probably wishes it were, I mean, they exchanged some halfway decent banter. sometimes and Hemsworth has enough charisma to shoulder most of his sins, but it's all superficial stuff, just attractive people and attractive places saying lines that are sometimes funny, tied together by a plot that you shouldn't think too much about and I guess Since that's pretty much the spirit of this entire movie, don't think or stop to question it, just consume the product, forget about it, and move on.

Everything is done as quickly, simplistically, and lazily as possible to produce a final product that is as safe, predictable, and unimaginative as it ultimately is.Ultimately, it should be an MCU movie. Men in Black International is just another addition to the sad list of films like Dark Destiny, Amazing Spider-Man, and 2016's Ghostbusters, all of which tried and failed to reboot old franchises without really understanding what made them tick. First place anyway, I got sad and left now