Movie Review - Men in Black: International
It isn't that there's much wrong with MiB International so much as there isn't anything right about it: the humor is middling; the pacing is choppy; and the plot/character development is bland.
I can't complain about the acting. Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson did good enough with what they had to work with, but Thor: Ragnorak this isn't.
The biggest problem with MiB International is the pacing. There are long stretches that border on boring, sometimes wandering on the wrong side of the border. Right in the middle of the movie is the main chase scene that serves as the best Peetime in the movie. I'm certain that's not what the creators had in mind.
There are elements of potential in the story. It feels like all the movie needed was a few more drafts of the script to give it the polish it needed. For instance there are continual references to Agent H's (Hemsworth) character change since the opening scene of the movie....however, there's never any resolution as to why this change happened.
Speaking of the opening scene, there was some real confusion in the order of time between the first few scenes of the movie. There's no indication when the first scene starts, as Agent H and T arrive at the Eiffel Tower. After that, the scene cuts to another scene with "20 years ago" displayed on the screen. At the end of that we jump to the present. That seems simple enough until 3/4 of the way through the movie we discover that the opening scene took place 3 years in the past. I don't want to imply that there's a simple solution to how this should have been done, but it's the job of the writers/director to tell a cohesive story, and they botched that in the first 5 minutes of the movie.
I think most fans of the MiB franchise will be disappointed. This installment is nowhere near as good is the first, or third, movie. The second MiB was pretty awful, save for some funny scenes. I'd say this fourth movie is better than that, but not by much.
Grade: C-
Rated (PG-13) for sci-fi action, some language and suggestive material Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sequel
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