TL;DR – A film that is funny in places, has some good effects and cast, but can’t escape its boilerplate plot
Score – 3 out of 5 stars
Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit scene
Review –
Back in the day, oh goodness, 1997 was over two decades ago, I had no idea that
a moth floating through the air was going to lead to something just magical.
That first Men in Black film was like
lighting in a bottle, hell I still have that theme song playing in my head from time
to time. However, since then the follow-up films have never been able to
capture, or even come close to that first film (though the cartoon series
almost did). Flash forward to last year when I heard that they were taking
another shot at the series, honestly, I felt a bit mostly meh. But then they announced
that it was going to be headed by Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth. Well if
there is a way to get me instantly interested in something it is to cast Tessa
Thompson and Chris Hemsworth and let’s see how they did.
So to set the scene, back in 2016 Agent H (Chris Hemsworth) and High T (Liam
Neeson) arrive in Paris to stop a catastrophe, for the Hive, a destructive
species, was about to use The Eiffel Tower to gate onto Earth and take it over.
We then find ourselves with a young girl called Molly (Mandeiya Flory) who got
to see the Men in Black in action and hid so she never had her memories wiped
by the Neuralyzer. Now in 2018, all grown up Molly (Tessa Thompson) tries to
find the MIB and after a lifetime hunt, she is given status as a probationary officer
and sent to the London Branch where something does not seem right.
