Men in Black III (3D) (2012)

Genre: Science-fiction/Action/Adventure/Comedy

Starring: Will Smith, Jemaine Clement, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emma Thompson

Crisp black suits, expression-less faces, black sunglasses and a space gun; that's what you need to have to look like a member of the Men in Black (MiB). In the third installment of the movie, an intergalactic criminal, Boris the Animal (Clement) who prefers to be known as just 'Boris' escapes from his lunar prison and intends to resume his destruction of Earth. Agent K (Lee Jones) had shot Boris' arm off 40 years ago, arrested him and successfully put up the ArcNet, a safety device that would protect Earth from future alien attacks. Boris decides to go back in time, kill Agent K and prevent the ArcNet from ever being deployed and hence fulfilling his quest of destroying Earth. Agent K's partner Agent J (Smith) must now go back in time to 1969 and prevent Boris from doing what he intends to do with the help of a much younger Agent K (Brolin). The 3D aspect of the movie seems to be present purely for marketing and revenue-generation purposes and does very little to make the movie any more interesting. The special effects and graphics are phenomenal, no doubt, but you would very quickly feel your watching any other 2D movie and you might have just wasted that extra money for thrills that never came. The movie comes as a huge improvement over the previous two movies and the second one in particular. The story is more well laid out, more complex and the movie has far more character overall. Many may find it hard to grasp or understand but its that very aspect that makes this movie even more desirable.

Thumbs up: Great story
Thumbs down: Complex for a few

Rating: 7.3/10