Rent Men in Black: International (2019)

Neuralised - Men in Black: International review by AER

All three sequels are forgettable and I only saw the newest one last night. I keep on going back for more but the magic of the first MIB is beginning to look like a fleet footed ghost that cannot be bottled up and sold again and again. Will Smith & Tommy Lee Jones came back for two more sequels but were wise to give this new one the swerve as its attempts at invention and fun fall flat again and again. Maybe, I'm getting too old for MIB but if films like Guardians of the Galaxy and Logan can draw me then this has missed a giant trick.

See the cinema paradiso review because I essay my thoughts better an I agree with his thoughts. I will add though that the character keep on referring to H's (Chris Hemsworth) former glory days, that he's coasting and that the joy has gone. It's almost as if they are talking about the acotr himself who looks stoned and very bored. Tessa Thompson is too vapid to make much of an impression, her origin story and rise to the top of the ranks is faster than a Rocky montage on fast forward and you never get to know her.

It's a shame that MIB 4 is a throwaway as bits come to life and are actually quite charming but it soon becomes apparent that this is a cynical money spinner in this dead blockbuster period of boring cookie-cutter sequels / reboots / remakes / undercooked CGI BBQs. This one gave me a belly ache. Still it's nowhere near as bad as the MIB rip-off RIPD.

Negligible but young teens may well like it.

Give it a miss - too much feminist and pc propaganda clogging up the plot! - Men in Black: International review by CS

I thought the original first three films with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones were brilliant and it takes a lot to follow on from such a great trilogy! Seeing that Chris Hemsworth was in this, and his partner was now a Black Woman, I guessed instantly that his acting would be dull and that they would play up to the incessant and extremely annoying PC feminist propaganda that seems to be all so prevalent at the moment in cinema! True to form, I was not disappointed! Hemsworth literally sleepwalks through the film and acts so dumb, just like he did in the awful Ghostbusters reboot too. Tessa Thompson looks like the spitting image of Michael Jackson after he had all the facial surgery, I was so distracted by that fact, that I found it very difficult to see her as a person, that and the fact that the Black Feminist propaganda is so prevalent, that it takes over from everything else in the film! Also included are lots of not so subtle sexual put down references, like her gun is bigger than his, she's a better fighter than he is, she's just so amazing and he isn't (sarcasm intended)! The storyline, plot, acting, direction, not so special effects, are all over the place. This is a film that thinks it's funny but isn't, with constant feminist putdowns, obvious black casting, this film also feels as though it was made more for the Middle Eastern and East Asian markets, than for Europe or America and as a result treads very carefully around certain topics, whilst setting much of the film in North Africa! There are also lots of very obvious mistakes or things that don't make sense, such as the viewing platform at the top of the Eiffel Tower being the size of a concert hall, I think not! I think personally that the people making these films today have got so lost and wrapped up in PC'ness and the subject of race and gender, that they forget that what people are a race too and there are just as many men as women living here on the planet equality is just that, it's for everyone not just a select few!

Oh dear! - Men in Black: International review by CP Customer

I love the "Men in Black" movies, so I  thought I'd rent this despite the reviews.  Such a disappointment.  Men in Black 1-3 with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith were superb and compared to those, this was a damp squib - and the dialogue was painful !!  I thought Tessa Thompson was completely miscast, and as a partnership with Chris Hemsworth, it was as dull as ditch-water.  The "pc" element was thrust at us again too - a black woman super-smart compared to her "dumb" sidekick.   Liam Neeson was also miscast- he has far too soft a voice for the Chief of the Department. Not many aliens either, and those there were were poor compared to the other films.  "Pawny" seemed to have come from a completely different film for children!  It was so slow and boring without Tommy & Will wise-cracking and bouncing off each other.  Even Emma Thompson looked thoroughly fed up.  Give it a miss.