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Genre: Action, Comedy, Science

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Casts: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Emma Thompson, Alice Eve, Bill Hader

Running Time: 103 Minutes

Synopsis:

Duo Agen MIB Jay (Will Smith) dan Agen Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) kembali beraksi. Ketika dunia terancam oleh alien jahat, Agen J melakukan perjalanan kembali ke tahun 1969, di mana J dengan Agen K yang lebih muda berusaha untuk menghentikan penjahat bernama Boris (Jemaine Clement) yang berencana menghancurkan dunia di masa depan dan tentunya menyelamatkan Agen K itu sendiri yang telah tewas di masa yang akan datang. Emma Thompson akan bermain sebagai Agen operasi O.

Review:

Ada apa dengan film yang menjadi salah satu film favorit gua 15 tahun lalu? Apa yang terjadi dengan MIB semenjak kesuksesan di film pertama? Mengapa kualitasnya semakin merosot?

Ok, pertama mari kita perhatikan detail berikut.

Avatar (James Cameron), membutuhkan biaya produksi sebesar $300 Juta. Hasilnya, sangat menggagumkan, pendapatan mencapai $2,7 Milyar dan menjadi film terlaris di dunia sepanjang masa mengalahkan Titanic.

The Avengers (Joss Whedon), membutuhkan biaya produksi sebesar $270 Juta. Hasilnya, hanya butuh waktu 1 minggu untuk mencapai pendapatan lebih dari $1 Milyar.

Men In Black III (Barry Sonnenfeld), membutuhkan biaya produksi sebesar $375 Juta. Hasilnya? Thumbs Down :-pq

Ada apa dengan Barry? Barry seperti enggan dan setengah-setengah dalam mengusahakan film MIB semenjak seri keduanya yang mulai mengalami penurunan drastis baik dari segi jalan cerita dan bahkan ide kreatif itu sendiri yang tidak muncul.

Alur cerita di film ketiga benar-benar dipaksakan seperti seolah-olah film adaptasi dari novel, ketika novel itu sudah habis dan filmnya masih laris di pasaran, maka pihak produksi siap merilis kembali film itu dengan jalan cerita yang dibuat sendiri dan hasilnya terkesan dipaksakan demi mendapatkan penghasilan yang lebih.

15 tahun lalu MIB benar-benar menarik banyak penggemar. Jalan ceritanya baru, agen berhadapan dengan alien. 10 tahun lalu MIB II dirilis tapi sayang hasilnya tidak sesuai ekspetasi tinggi penonton terhadap film pertamanya. Tahun 2012, 10 tahun yang cukup panjang untuk menantikan kembalinya Will Smith dan Tommy Lee Jones, ternyata di luar ekspetasi. Penampilan keduanya melorot jauh ke bawah. Will dan Tommy tidak berakting layaknya Agen J dan K seperti 15 tahun lalu. Tapi untungnya Josh Brolin yang memerankan versi muda Agen K berhasil menyelamatkan film.

3D pada film ini tidak sesuai dengan komentar Will Smith yang mengatakan akan membuat 3D seharusnya bisa dinikmati, Hasilnya? Tidak ada apa-apa yang perlu ditampilkan secara 3D pada film ini. Jalan ceritanya datar dan hampir di keseluruhan film penonton hanya bisa duduk tenang dengan mimik muka yang datar. Adegan action dan komedi yang unsur utama MIB benar-benar garing dan tidak mengundang tawa dan seru. Mungkin salah satu adegan yang cukup mengejutkan dalam film ini adalah adegan klimaks yang benar-benar 'Wah!'.

Secara keseluruhan, film MIB terus mengalami penurunan kualitas dari film pertamanya. Dan dengan rencana dilanjutkan ke film ke-4, ada baiknya pihak Columbia Pictures melakukan perombakan dari dalam tim maupun luar untuk mencapai hasil yang memuaskan seperti pada film pertamanya.

NB: Dari sederetan nama Cameo yang muncul, gua cuma bisa lihat Nicole Scherzinger, Lady Gaga sama Tim Burton. Justin Bieber? Atau mungkin kelewatan ya?

Rating:

Cerita: 5/10

Pemain: 6/10

3D: 5/10

Ending: 5/10

Overall: 5/10

Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld

Produced by: Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald

Written by: Etan Cohen

Based on The Men in Black by: Lowell Cunningham

Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emma Thompson

Music by: Danny Elfman

Cinematography: Bill Pope

Editing by: Don Zimmerman

Studio: Amblin Entertainment, Parkes + MacDonald Imagenation, Hemisphere Media Capital

Distributed by: Columbia Pictures

Release date(s): May 23, 2012 (France & Indonesia), May 25, 2012 (US & Worldwide)

Running time: 106 minutes

Country: United States

Language: English

Budget: $375 million

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, and brief suggestive content.

~ Synopsis ~

In Men in Black 3, Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back... in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him -- secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind. The film is directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. The screenplay is written by Etan Cohen, based on the Malibu Comic by Lowell Cunningham. The producers are Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, and the executive producers are Steven Spielberg and G. Mac Brown.

~ The Agents ~

Agent J (Jay, or just J) is a fictional MIB agent and one of the two protagonists of Men In Black, its sequel Men in Black II, its trilogy Men in Black 3 and Men in Black: The Series. Agent J is portrayed by Will Smith in the three films and voiced by Keith Diamond in the animated series.

In the first film, Agent J is changed to an African-American, despite being Caucasian in the comics. His MIB career starts out when, as NYPD officer James Darrell Edwards III, he runs down a swift, wall-climbing alien on foot. When MIB Agent K notices his potential, he recruits him into the MIB.

At some point between the first and second film, Elle goes back to her morgue career, and Jay has gained a reputation for neuralyzing all of his partners for, in his opinion, unsuitability to work at MIB; at the beginning of the film, he neuralyzes his new partner Agent T because he forces Tee to admit that he joined the agency to be a hero, something that is fundamentally impossible in the Men in Black due to the secretive nature of the organization. Other than that, he has developed into a superb and highly respected agent.

In the third film, a time-traveling alien goes back to 1969 and murders a young Kay, which could possibly lead to the end of the world in some form or the other. Jay learns of Kay's death and travels to 1969 to teach him everything he himself has learned in his fifteen years with the Men in Black and save his mentor's life, hoping to apparently prevent a oncoming alien invasion due at some point in time. There is also a 24-hour time limit that could leave him in the past for the rest of his life.

Agent K (also known as Kay, or simply K) is a fictional MIB agent and one of the two protagonists of the films Men in Black, its sequel Men in Black II, Men in Black: The Series, and Men in Black 3. Agent K is portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones in the two films and voiced by Ed O'Ross (The Hidden) and later Gregg Berger in the animated series. Although formally known as Kevin Brown, the film's trading card series notes Agent K's name to be Kevin Cunningham, a nod to Lowell Cunningham, creator of the comic.

In the first film, he is the agent who recruits Agent J after his first partner, Agent D, retires. He and Zed realize James Edwards' potential and they recruit him into the Men in Black. Kay noted that he admires Edwards' refusal to strictly follow authority as well the as the physical effort he exerted to catch an alien suspect. Kay exhibits a very serious demeanor, rarely joking or smiling and giving very matter-of-fact responses.

Now working at a post office in Truro, Massachusetts, Kevin Brown believes that he spent 35 years in a coma and displays no immediate recognition when Jay shows up to bring him back in. Surprised at Jay's revelation that nearly every one of his coworkers is an alien, he agrees to go along. It was revealed Brown would look at the stars and wonders if he really knew something more, an attitude that caused his wife to leave him. Jay tries to bring Brown to MIB headquarters, where a de-neuralyzer can restore his memories, but the area is locked down after the hostile alien Serleena invades it.

In the upcoming third film, by this time, Kay has been back at MIB for ten years and has been revealed to have kept secrets of the universe from Jay. Later on, a time-traveling alien travels back to 1969 and murders a young Kay (Josh Brolin), with other intentions leading to the end of the world. Jay learns of the plot and travels back to 1969 to teach Kay everything he himself has learned and save his mentor's life and prevent the oncoming alien invasion that happened, courtesy of Kay's death.

~ The Movies ~

For his fifth effort as a feature-film director, one-time cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld brought his cartoonish visual style and darkly humorous sensibilities to this adaptation of, appropriately enough, a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi comic book. Will Smith stars as James Darrel Edwards, a New York City cop with an athletic physique and a flippant, anti-authoritarian attitude toward law enforcement. After chasing down a mysterious perpetrator one night who turns out to be an alien, James is recruited by "K" (Tommy Lee Jones), a veteran of a clandestine government agency secretly policing the comings and goings of aliens on planet Earth. Nicknamed the "men in black" for their nondescript uniform of black suit, shoes, tie, and sunglasses, the agents are assigned to recover a bauble that's been stolen by an intergalactic terrorist (Vincent D'Onofrio). It seems the item is none other than the galaxy itself, and its theft has plunged humanity into the center of what's shaping up to become an interstellar war, unless K and his new wisecracking partner, now renamed "J," can stop the bad guy. On their side but somewhat in the dark is a pretty, unflappable city medical examiner (Linda Fiorentino) who has been zapped one too many times by K's ingenious memory-sapping device.

Otherworldly villains are on the loose again, and it's up to Earth's interstellar police force to bring them to justice in this sequel to the sci-fi comedy blockbuster Men in Black. Agent Jay (Will Smith) has become a high-ranking member of the Men in Black, the secret government task force designed to deal with unruly visitors from other worlds, while his former cohort, Agent Kay (Tommy Lee Jones), had his memory wiped clean and now lives a simple but contented life as a mailman. However, an especially nasty alien threat has reared its not-so-ugly head; Serleena (Lara Flynn Boyle) is a shape-shifting Kylothian alien who is in pursuit of another escaped visitor who holds the key to powers that would allow her to destroy the world. Making Serleena all the more dangerous is the fact she's taken on the appearance of a lingerie model, making her irresistible to most men. When the rampaging Serleena takes control of the MIB offices, Jay is forced to turn to the only man who can help him save the world -- the former Agent Kay. After restoring Kay's memory, the two remaining Men in Black set out to conquer Serleena with a motley band of friendly aliens, including a handful of worm creatures and a talking dog named Frank (voice of Tim Blaney). Jay, meanwhile, has his head turned by Laura (Rosario Dawson), an attractive waitress who was an unwitting witness to an alien attack.