They tried to turn this into sci-fi James Bond, but with a female lead.
In theory, a genius idea, you’d say.
But in reality it’s just so, so bland.
It’s a movie that doesn’t make you feel anything at any point.
You know exactly what’s going to happen all the time, and not just at the end, but also during scenes themselves.
Also I don’t think Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth are funny together, and I’ve actually thought that ever since Thor: Ragnarok (I know, hot take), but their lines here were chuckle worthy, at times.
The action is ..... just fine. The editing if fine, it’s watchable, but it doesn’t hit you at any point.
It’s just all so tame.


Remember 5 summers ago? The summer in which we had Godzilla, 22 JS, Winter Soldier, Edge of Tomorrow, Guardians of the Galaxy, Days of Future Past, etc.
Summer movies are starting to follow the same pattern as contemporary pop music.
They’ve both become kinda shit, and people are blaming streaming services for their downfall.
However, that’s not the reason for their downfall, at all.
The mistake is that producers are just **not willing to take any risk**, and rather have their films be written by committees than screenwriters.
But here’s the thing: how many more films like Dark Phoenix, Godzilla II and now this do need to flop before you finally learn that that approach doesn’t work, Hollywood?

4/10

After reading the comments on this website and other, I didn't expect anything but an empty movie à la Marvel, with no content, half a story but good SFX to make us swallow the pill, but I was actually surprised, in a good way.
That might not be the best MIB movie, but I would place it in third position, as I found it better in many ways than MIB3.

If I had to state the number one reason this movie flopped, I'd probably blame the actors, particularly Tessa Thompson. While her character was inconsistent: borderline annoying at the start of the movie with her way-too-much-excited attitude to not-even-surprised-of-alien-stuff-everywhere fro the half of the movie, far from Will Smith's Agent L discovering the system on screen with us, it feel that Agent M was recruited on screen, acquired experience somehow and came back finishing the movie as a more mature agent... Plus she didn't really fit there, with no chemistry with the rest of the cast, it's more of a movie following two agents (and Pawny) than a duo.

Chris Hemsworth on the other way is a very good half of a duo, unfortunately there's no real second half, and he, or more likely his character can not (and should not) compensate that void alone.

Liam Neeson is probably the best pick for an experienced agent now head of a MIB branch, and play that role to the perfection
[spoiler] even though his over protective behavior toward agent H makes him suspicious early on in the movie [/spoiler].

The movie in itself is not as funny as the 2 first iterations, but has its moments, I can not say jokes fall flat because I did not notice a lot of them and the ones I noticed did at the very least make me smile, so it is not a failed attempt of comedy, but more likely a deliberate choice to bet on well... not humor at least.
The story was not half bad, but was not brand new, [spoiler]the concept of alien(s) coming on earth carrying an object/weapon incredibly powerful but searched but a destructive alien race sounds a lot like the first movies,[/spoiler] ok, there are a few twists, but it does not make it original enough to make this movie memorable, compared to MIB or MIB2.

I think the accent was put on blowing our mind with alien and advanced tech but too much it too much. When there is no reason , no purpose and makes no sense, why include it?
[spoiler]First a teleoperator can track an alien spaceship with a simple laptop while at work despite the incredible MIB tech, they can't fake an asteroid trajectory or erase it from an basic internet website?
Then, the New York subway transforming in a kind of overboosted hyperloop. The idea i actually really cool, but why in the hell did they need to include a physical transformation of the old looking classic metro train into a super advanced one while in both station aliens are roaming around hence the total absence of a need for camouflage. To be noted than in London, the train stay hi-tech...
Next, in the first fight scene against the twins, just outside the club, the car is filled with weapons, litteraly every single part of the car is a weapon cache, even the side mirrors or the exhaust pipe. And if you try to put it all together, you will quickly really, that it i not technically possible, unless the MIB cars would be secretly TARDIS?
Again with the cars, they can obviously transform, to fly, overdrive or any other function, as a classic MIB car should do, but they push the transformation almost to a Transformers level, in the last scene, it takes almost 10 seconds for the car to change into fly mode, while in the original movies, a reactor got out of the boot and that was enough, they here felt the need to make the whole trunk disappear, move, change shape to, at the end, give us a badass planecar! No just kidding, the result looks more like a frail paper plane than anything else.[/spoiler]

I will not most certainly nor beg for a sequel, but I would not spit on it either. I only wish I could see more Agent H and less Agent M in the future.
Idea for a future movie: a bridge between the "real" MIB movies and MIB International where Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) and Agent T (High T, Liam Neeson) fought together as field agent a few years/decades back, with, why not, young Agents L and H making a cameo...

And of course, last but not least, I loved Pawny, he's cute, fun, badass and put a lot a fresh air in the movie. He's probably the one who made me laugh the most, from his very first appearance, i wanted to see him more, and I still do!

In the end, I enjoyed watching this movie, I had some fun, it was a occasion to dive back into one of my favorite sci-fi franchises. The movie was not really freshly original, nor the actors fitting in, but I can not qualify this movie as a bad movie, it an OK movie, tasteless compared to the rest of the franchise but an interesting entry for the younger generation who might not have been there in 1997 to watch Agent L and Agent K making there debut on the big screen.

I give it a 6.5, and just because of Pawny, I'll round it up.

'MIB: International' sounds like a good idea on paper, from the cast and the director - even for the franchise, the idea to go “International” sounds really exciting and a great way to expand the world without being too tied to the original films. Unfortunately, it’s just another boring blockbuster using a nostalgic property to make a quick buck without understanding what made the lighting in a bottle that was the first film work. We didn’t even get a rap tie-in song from Will Smith or even Pitbull, and that’s what truly hurts the most.
- Chris dos Santos

Read Chris' full article...
https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-men-in-black-international-wish-we-could-memory-wipe-this-one

Chris Hemsworth just makes everything better. The only good parts of Ghostbusters was Hemsworth. His Thor movies were the best of the MC individual movies and his presence made the Avengers movies that much more enjoyable. Similarly, his levity here made a decline from MiB3 more tolerable. He's just fun to watch.

Well... this was another sequel that no one asked for, at all and we can probably honestly say that this is a huge reason why it flopped.

I had absolutely no interest in seeing another sequel of MIB, especially one without Will Smith, and especially one that is gender-swapped and rests closer to the reboot mark than the remake mark.

Which are all reasons why I didn't see it until it came around for free.

And as predicted while all but rebooting the franchise, it also attempts to make a political statement with the jokes coming from "laugh because you agree with this" type of humor, which rarely actually lands. And as a result it feels like SNL doing MIB in a sequel no one asked for.