Men In Black: International

“Always remember: the universe has a way of leading you to where you're supposed to be, at the moment you're supposed to be there.”

Filmology Rating: 2 out of 4

Men in Black: International is Sony's latest attempt at making a movie. It is directed by F. Gary Gray and stars Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, and Liam Nesson. Another plot involving a macguffin. One veteran agent and a rookie must go and find the thing. They get a wacky, comic relief alien to help in their journey.

Sony claimed this "reboot" would go in "new and excited directions." However, they inserted all of their equations into a supercomputer (made by Sony TM), they hit the equal sign, and this movie came out the other side.

This is not a 'Dark Phoenix' situation where there were reshoots and nobody could compromise on an ending. The film is just cinematic beige.

Not one joke landed at all. Every piece of comedy fell flat. One little alien in particular, was riding the line of annoying. There is no juxtaposition in the casting either. It's just two A-List stars pointing laser guns at a green screen. This entire film is just so boring.

Everything is paint-by-the-numbers. Insert witty character here. Insert director. Insert bad guy. Insert joke. Insert plot twist. Insert action scene. From a pure entertainment perspective, this is far worse than 'Men in Black 2.' And for being a new version of this franchise, this film borrows so much from the first three films; right down to a talking pug, at one point.

At the least the first three had Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones/Josh Brolin. This has nothing. Summer 2019 sucks...so far.

Rating: Let It Burn

-Nolan