Will Smith dusts off his old black suit, white shirt and black tie and starts neuralising the crap out of the American public again. Tommy Lee Jones is especially miserable and it may have something to do with Emma Thompson rocking up as the new boss. Some old enemy of Tommy's escapes jail with the help of a pussycat doll and travels back in time to carry out some mischief. Big Willy realises this and follows the bad man into the past in order to throw a spanner into the works. Once here he meets Josh Brolin who is pretending to be a young Tommy and the two of them get up to all sorts of 60's related shenanigans.
Men In Black the original was a great idea and turned into a great film. Will Smith is a very good comic actor and is able to make the majority of situations funny and entertaining. Then Men In Black 2 came along and the standard dropped just a tad. Safe to say then that the enthusiasm for the third installment was not there. Surprisingly though it isn't actually that bad. Will Smith does his usual comedy thing and I laughed on many occasions and found myself actually enjoying the film. Tommy Lee Jones is always good but is not really in the film much but his 60's counterpart Josh Brolin is equally good. Both pull of miserable southern drawl brilliantly. The only weak point in the chain is the bad guy who cannot act very well, at all. He has a very odd accent that I think was meant to be British but I couldn't really tell. To be honest they would need to go some to best Edgar the bug from the first film but come on people put a little more effort in. Ignoring that I found the film entertaining enough and actually not bad.
Verdict: 3/5
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