mercoledì 24 dicembre 2014

Men in Black III - 2012

I like it. Sure it'll never be like the first one, but as number threes go it's not that bad. :-) This movie is actually better than the second one.
Story is: In 1969 K stopped a murderer and saved the Earth putting up in space a protective shield against a very aggressive alien race. He took him prisoner after cutting off one of his arms, and a special prison was built on the moon to contain him. It so happens now that Boris the animal (Jemaine Clement) escapes and wants revenge against K, but not just that! Boris finds a rare device that can take him to the past, and uses it. He wants to help his younger self kill K and stop the shield from ever being activated. Without K and the shield, the Earth will be conquered, and we have a nice image of alien ship all over town. Agent J goes back in time to stop it from happening. End of plot. Now on with the details. Boris' look can be either very cool or rather disgusting, depending on the point of view. It very nicely done, very well thought, impressive, so seen from the outside it a cool job; the character though is disgusting.
The new chief Agent O (Emma Thompson) has a small role, and I must say how I dislike the strange noises she made at Zed's funeral. What I liked was J (Will Smith) doing a K (Tommy Lee Jones) impersonation :lol: trying to speak like him :lol: I liked that :-)
After their first little battle, J says "Man, I'm getting too old for this. I can only imagine how you feel!" :lol: Truth be told, he is right, K is getting a bit old now...
How funny was the little child, when J was craving for milk chocolate, saying "Mommy the President is drinking my milk" :lol:
For everybody else now K was killed in 1969, but J still remembers it because he was there when it all happened... so now he goes back hunting Boris, wanting to kill him before he could do anything, but he's stopped by younger K (Josh Brolin) who works with a young O (Alice Eve). J does a nice recap for us all here: "I'm an agent of the Men in Black, but I'm from the future, We're partners. 25 years from now you're gonna recruit me and 14 years after that the guy you didn't let me kill today at Coney Island, he escapes from prison and jumps back in the past and unleashes a full-scale invasion of Earth. We got about 19 hours to catch him and kill him so, really, we need to go right now". Okay.
They work together, they meet Andy Warhol, who is really a MIB under cover: Agent W. They also meet Griffin who can see all possible futures and who gives K the Arc Net. They go to Cape Canaveral to plant it on the rocket to the moon, but the two Boris are waiting for them. J deals with future Boris, while K shoots off one of past-Boris arms. Then K's life is saved by a colonel that dies in his place. J is watching not too far away, and discovers with us that that colonel was actually his father: that's why at the end of the movie he said he had grown up without a father. This time, though, K follows J's previous advice and does not arrest Boris, he shoots and kills him instead. Back to our days, J finds old K alive and well, and life goes on.
At first I wasn't too convinced about a Mib film with so little TL Jones in it, the idea of Josh Brolin didn't seem so right, but after watching it I must take a step back and admit that it is. Brolin does a good job, he's a good young K, copying a bit of TLJ's ways, just enough but not too much because the character had changed after what happened. For examples, the way he looked straight at J before saying Okay was very much like TLJ, but he also was more loose, more open. K changed after that because of the colonel's death, and meeting little James touched him deeply.

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