The movie is fantastical, but entertaining. Normally I didn't like action movie nor Will Smith, but this movie humanizes and touches. And it's cool to see all sort of gadgets that the movie dreamed about these days, time travel, memory swipe, violent aliens, plus the nostalgia of the wonder years of 1969 where dreams are purer, air freshers, and life tho ignorant, less complicated.
I like this review from TonyMacklin.net.
Excerpt:
"1968 was the year both Will Smith and Josh Brolin were born. Now Smith and Brolin get together on screen for about an hour in Men in Black 3 - set when? 1969.
It's a serendipitous uniting. Smith again plays Agent J, and Brolin plays 29-year-old Agent K.
Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones [born in 1946] do their patented roles, but Brolin brings a fresh energy to the younger Agent K. The fact that 44-year-old Brolin plays a 29-year-old is not a problem. Brolin adds a dimension that humanizes K.
Jemaine Clement is lethal bluster as Boris. Emma Thompson is attractive as Agent O. The past young Agent O is beautiful in the embodiment of actress Alice Eve.
But the actor and character that most humanizes the movie is Michael Stuhlbarg [also born in 1968] as Griffin, the alien with the gift of seeing various potential future happenings and outcomes, positive or horrible.
He shows J and K the future Amazin' Mets of 1969. Talk about a field of dreams.
Griffin is both knowing and insecure. He's a very "human" alien. Stuhlbarg gives an affecting performance of warmth and fearful anxiety."
