One of the first problems is Tessa Thompson’s character. Her entire character is that she saw an alien as a kid and wasn’t neuralized so she remembers the men in black. She thinks because she knows about and found the location of the men in black, she should be allowed to join. The current head of men in black in New York played by Emma Thompson, let her join very nonchalantly and without any other qualifications. Chris Hemsworth is given all the personality in the movie. Hemsworth and Thompson normally have good chemistry like in Thor: Ragnarok, but they weren’t given much to work with here.
The overall plot of the movie isn’t that impressive. The previous three men in black movies always had a sense of global peril. This new one doesn’t have that. They talk about a threat called the hive but we never see their capabilities or how bad they are. It just feels like the plot moves the characters from one set piece to another without feeling natural. There is also a continuity error about the origin of men in black. In the original Tommy Lee Jones says it was formed in 1961 after a UFO landed. But in the new one they say the men in a black existed as early as the 1880s. This movie takes place in the same continuity as the three so there shouldn’t be a discrepancy.
This movie suffers from not having the original cast in it. While some of the new characters are ok, most of them are one note. Having Liam Nesson in the men in black is nice in concept, but they didn’t do enough with his character. Chris Hemsworth is doing most of the jokes, but has no one to play off of. The writing team behind Men in Black: International are Matt Holloway and Art Marcum. They have written such movies as Iron Man, Punisher: Warzone, and Transformers: The Last Knight. They know how to write exciting movies with global consequences, so i don't know what happened in this case. Hopefully their upcoming movie Morbius will be better. 🍔 and 1/2 🍔
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