The Time Tour is insidiously plotted and Etan Cohen’s script for “Men in Black 3” kept a tight rein on potentially loose dangling and strife. There’s one big, fat problem at the center of the story, but we’ll get to that in a moment. Trying to apply logic to time travel is like coloring a rainbow: the lines seem open, but look closer and a spectrum begins bend, mix and confuse. All philosophical meanderings aside, Barry Sonnenfeld’s return to the adventures of Agent J (Will Smith) and Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) is a really funny and ultimately beloved flick of the summer.
the movie starts rummaging through the same old bag of fun, the strong agent K and the charismatically snarky agent J to their users. phasers called back to explode light aliens tucked under human disguises. Plot: One of the survivors of a despised alien race, Boris Animal (unknown as Jemaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords) escapes a maximum security prison on the moon. It was Agent K who put him there in 1969, and Boris’ claim appetite begins with K and ends with the destruction of the Earth To follow the course.
Things get interesting when we notice that an ominous secret is suddenly fixed between the two of us. Boris goes back in time, using a forbidden time jumping device from a video game store clerk, to stop K from with a blow of his arm, and he would try. Agent J must then go to 1969 to stop Boris from stopping Agent K, and of course he will save the world. The time-dancing elements are fun and when you finally meet young Agent K, Josh Brolin doing a brilliant Tommy Lee Jones impression, it’s a riot. Not to mention, a woolly time against racial tensions and eccentricities 1969 New York, a la Andy Warhol’s The Factory meets “Star Wars” Cantina.
Back in 1969, he also celebrated the glory days of space travel, when Kennedy lifted the nation’s spirits to the moon. There is an interesting contrast to where the film begins: the prison of the moon. Like “MIB3” characters, our culture is imprisoned by its past, full of secrets and mistakes, full of questions, the answers to which we do not want to know. So, screenwriters Sonnenfeld and Cohen take us back to a time when anything was possible. Of course, race still hinders our humanity, but there was a time when the boundaries were broken by Martin Luther King Earth and Neil Armstrong on the moon.
All these feelings of longing and patriotism lie just below the advent of the dangerous comedy we know all too well. Then the movie just twists the nail at the end that will melt your heart like a Verklempt fondue. Now, that brings us back to that big, fat problem at the center of the story: that nasty little butterfly effect When over time you want to travel Without giving away any spoilers, I’m just wondering how Agent J ends up on the same road as Boris goes back in time and kills Agent K. Don’t the sharp turn of events create a whole new life than the one given. integral we learn Agent K is to Agent J in the end?
Although, as Michael Stuhlbarg’s character Griffin (“A Serious Man” “Hugo”) said, “Anything is possible.” “MIB3” is an unexpectedly strong return to a franchise that most of us are ready to forget, so it’s worth the experience.
