Men in Black 3 (2012)

Agent J travels in time to M.I.B.'s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.

Director:

Barry Sonnenfeld

Writers:

Etan Cohen, Lowell Cunningham (based on the Malibu comic by)

Stars:

Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin

1 win & 13 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Will Smith	...	Agent J
Tommy Lee Jones	...	Agent K
Josh Brolin	...	Young Agent K
Jemaine Clement	...	Boris The Animal
Emma Thompson	...	Agent O
Michael Stuhlbarg	...	Griffin
Mike Colter	...	Colonel
Nicole Scherzinger	...	Boris's Girlfriend
Michael Chernus	...	Jeffrey Price
Alice Eve	...	Young Agent O
David Rasche	...	Agent X
Keone Young	...	Mr. Wu
Bill Hader	...	Andy Warhol
Cayen Martin	...	Colonel's Son
Clarke Thorell	...	Prison Guard #1

Storyline

After breaking out of a moon-based maximum security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him - Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the time line has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is killed. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince K and others of just who he is and why he's there. With the help of a being who can see all time lines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something K had never told him.

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Plot Keywords:

alien | prison | criminal | maximum security prison | time travel | 

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Taglines:

Back to the past... to save the future

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, and brief suggestive content

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [ca] Official site [fr]

Country:

USA United Arab Emirates

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 May 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

M.I.B.³

Filming Locations:

Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$225,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$54,592,779 (USA) (25 May 2012)

Gross:

$179,020,854 (USA) (7 September 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures, Hemisphere Media Capital, Amblin Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

106 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Barry Sonnenfeld:  The couple watching the Apollo 11 launch is the director and his real-life wife Susan Ringo.

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Goofs

At Coney Island, the bumper cars seen behind J and K have rectangular headlights, which are wrong for the 1969 period.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Prison Guard #1: Well, well, Boris the Animal has a visitor. I guess one every 40 years is okay.

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Crazy Credits

This is the first film in the series not to have an opening credits sequence.

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Connections

Followed by Men in Black 4

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Soundtracks

"Baseball Stomp"
Performed by Adam Blau

User Reviews

Josh Brolin Played a Perfect Tommy Lee Jones

I am not exactly a Will Smith fan. I think the last Will Smith film I watched and liked was the first "Men in Black" film back in 1997. I was surprised to learn that there will be another installment of "Men in Black" this year, the third of the series. The second MiB was shown in 2002, and I did not even care to finish that one. Will the ten years between the last episode and this one make a difference? I needed to see that.

In this film, a vicious alien villain known as Boris the Animal escapes from his prison on the moon, where he had been locked up since being arrested by Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) back in 1969. One day, Agent K disappears from the present day. His partner Agent J (Will Smith) realizes that K had been assassinated by Boris forty years ago, which caused a major change of events, allowing Boris' alien race to overrun the Earth. J had to find a way to travel back in time to 1969 in order to save K and rectify the tragic consequences of his death. Can J save K and in turn save the Earth from the clutches of Boris?

The odd couple was just as they were before in the first films. Will Smith is still his old loudmouth Agent J as Tommy Lee Jones was his tight-lipped Agent K. As J goes back to the past, he will interact with the young 29-year old K, perfectly played by Josh Brolin. Brolin amazingly captures the laconic persona, and even the distinct voice, of Jones so well that they seemed to have been one and the same actor. It was also good to see Emma Thompson again in a major film as she portrayed Agent O, another senior agent with a soft spot for K. The younger Agent O was played by a cutie named Alice Eve, but she certainly did not convince us that she would look or act like Emma Thompson when she grows older.

I must say that this film was really a most entertaining one. Well, maybe more for me than for my kids. Younger audiences may find the jokes about 1969 cultural references, such as the hippies, the racial tension, etc., to be a bit difficult to grasp. But the fun action sequences with some exciting futuristic vehicles and weaponry, the imaginative and repulsive aliens made by no less than the master monster-maker Rick Baker, the thrilling integration of the historic Apollo 11 lift-off, and the touching revelation of K's big secret made this a very good and enjoyable movie to watch. 3D did not seem necessary. Director Barry Sonnenfeld got it right this time, and this segment certainly gave perfect closure to the story arc of the whole series.