Men in Black: International
2019
*½
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Rebecca Ferguson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rafe Spall, Laurent Bourgeois, Larry Bourgeois, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson
Seven years after the belated third part, the franchise reboots with a new director and cast, but no new ideas whatsoever. The movie treats its audience as if Men in Black or its sequels never existed. It's simply enough to introduce another collection of wacky alien characters. Rookie MIB Agent M is dispatched to London, where she teams up with the supremely talented but increasingly cocky and sloppy Agent H. There is a generic A-plot about a global threat and an utterly predictable B-plot about a mole inside the agency. Both are so boring that I found myself drifting off at times. Hemsworth and Thompson were a wonderful pair in Thor: Ragnarok, but they don't have any chance with this material.
