There is such an American movie, it is a combination of science fiction, action, comedy, warmth, cult, and crossing. Perhaps hearing so many elements mixed together, people must subconsciously think that this is a small low-budget movie.
However, its production cost was as high as $220 million, and the male lead was Will Smith, the highest paid black actor in Hollywood, and its executive producer was the famous Steven Spielberg director.
This is "Men in Black 3", released in 2012, ten years after its predecessor "Men in Black 2", and the first part of the series is also 15 years away.
Although 10 years later, the film's director is still Barry Sonnanfeld, the director of the first two games, and the protagonists are still Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, agentS and agentSK.
This is also the three-and-a-half-year re-appearance of will Smith in the film after starring in "Seven Pounds" in 2008, setting the longest "downtime" since he entered the industry in 1993.
In addition, the film's executive producer was changed to the famous Steven Spielberg director, which is also his second time as the director of the third sequel to the series, the last time he was the supervising producer of the third sequel was "Transformers"; another surprise is that Yao Ming and Gaga became one of the easter eggs of this blockbuster.
In addition, the film removed Zed, the boss of the "Men in Black" organization in the previous game, and replaced it with an important supporting role, Agent O played by Emma Thompson.
Prior to starring in the film, she starred as Trelawney, a professor of divination in Harry Potter;
There is no nonsense in the film, and the opening is a hot sexy beauty who walks towards the depths of the prison with a cake.
The prison is heavily guarded because she's visiting Boris, the infamous criminal beast— from the equally infamous planet Borodo, where people are aggressive.
This prison is also special in that it is built on the surface of the moon.
Of course, she didn't just visit, the purpose of her trip was to rescue the beast, and she did. With her help, the one-armed beast was able to regain its freedom.
The rescued beast does not hesitate to turn out everyone in the scene, including Beauty, and has only one goal in mind: to take revenge on Agent K, who arrested him that year.
During his time in prison, he inquired about the existence of time-traveling machines, and a plan came to his mind.
On the other side of the globe, Zed, the boss of the "Men in Black" organization in the previous game, died, and K's old acquaintance female agent O took the throne.
On the night of the funeral, J and K, the old duo, had just settled an alien incident in a Chinese restaurant when they encountered a beast that came to take revenge.
Although the two escaped, K still felt something. After saying goodbye to J's phone, the K of the past, which was tampered with by the beast, disappeared from this world.
When J wakes up the next day, he arrives at the Organization base as usual, only to find that no one but the boss Agent O remembers K, and his partner has become a more AA than he is.
In the original falsified history, K became a former "Men in Black" agent who was killed by a beast and heroically killed in the line of duty.
Since K had been lost early, the Earth Defense Network that K had set up earlier had never existed, and the beasts' people began to invade The Earth in an honorable manner.
In order to reverse the defeat, Agent J also finds the time travel machine and returns to July 15, 1969, a day before the beast's crossing, to stop the beast's plot.
In that most glorious era in the United States, he embarked on a new partnership adventure with the young K.
As the third work in the series, "Men in Black 3" still maintains the "characteristics" of the first two works.
With a box office of more than 54 million in the first week of the painting, it firmly sat on the throne of the weekly box office champion in the North American market, just like the previous two works. It's unbelievable to be able to achieve such a result after a decade from the previous game.
This film is also the first film of the "Men in Black" series to be released in China, and it also achieved a good result of more than 500 million yuan in that year.
At a cost of $225 million, the film grossed $620 million worldwide. However, the strong rise of the Marvel Universe movie interrupted the sequel to the series for a full 7 years.
In terms of film style, "Men in Black 3" still maintains the cult voltage style of the series. All kinds of strange and ugly-looking aliens and alien creatures are all visible in the movie.
In particular, when the exterminated aliens do not fall straight down, but will burst the pulp, it is a disgusting and exciting visual feeling.
In addition to this, another important commercial genre element of the film is the action.
As a science fiction action movie, under the wrapping of science fiction visual effects, the original ordinary action scenes have become interesting, which can be described as the result of complementarity.
The comedic elements of the film are also in line with the previous two works. Although this element is an essential part of the Men in Black series, the original Men in Black does not actually have a funny element.
But when director Barry Sonnenfeld began directing Men in Black 1, he decided to add comedic elements, and due to the good response, comedy elements became the standard in the Men in Black series.
In this film, when K recites a eulogy for the deceased boss, he first counts Zed's past. Following the usual eulogy process, he will then complete a reversal and begin to reminisce about Zed's strengths and good points.
As a result, after a few passes, K threw a "thank you" to end the eulogy, and J, who had never experienced such a situation, was immediately confused.
Immediately after the newly appointed Agent O continued to deliver a eulogy to pay tribute to the boss, J thought that the funeral could finally be normal.
As a result, when O said the eulogy of the Qiguro starman to the boss, he actually did not use human language, but imitated the so-called Qigro star language with the tone of "Nervousness" as the tone, similar to the howl of the little boy.
When he saw the solemn faces of the crowd, J began to wonder who was the abnormal one.
From a plot point of view, the film is a film that crosses the theme. Cross-genre films are not uncommon in American films, and spielberg, the film's executive producer, has filmed the "Back to the Future" trilogy with cross-genres.
Perhaps out of a nostalgic idea, the film does not choose the Western, World War II, or the future to travel through, but chooses a specific time - 1969.
In that year, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial-Discrimination had just entered into force, but blacks remained suspects and were not welcomed by whites. So J, who crossed back, was simply considered to be misfit with the car and was taken down by the police.
But white women began to be open and honest with black men, the hippie movement also emerged during this period, and the development of sexuality in the United States began to sprout.
The film shows and from then-celebrity Andy Warhol, hears the name of John Lennon's Japanese girlfriend Yoko, mentions the name of then-rock singer Janis Joplin, the New York Mets baseball team salty fish that has been at the bottom for seven consecutive years to win the world championship, and the Apollo 11 moon landing at the end.
These iconic characters and events of the American era are reproduced in the film.
So in a strict sense, the film is not a film that crosses the theme, but a film of collective nostalgia.
The most exciting part of the film's plot appears in the first half of the film, where Agent J inadvertently talks about his father to K, which becomes the foreshadowing of the ending story.
When seeing J witness the meeting between himself and K as a child, combined with the common experience of the two in the first two games, the deep feelings between the young and old partners undoubtedly touched the tears of the audience in front of the screen.
Another wonderful thing is that the star being paroded in the film is also an Easter egg show for the series of movies.
In the previous game, Michael Jackson's hope to become Agent M was rejected, and this time it was Yao Ming and Lady Gaga's turn to be "framed" as aliens lurking on Earth.
"Men in Black 3" is such a disgusting and funny movie in the front, nostalgic in the middle, and warm and touching in the back.
To borrow the title of IMDB's highest praise review, "(Bigger brain hole than the first two parts)". However, only a larger brain hole will have such an intriguing ending.
And its latest sequel, "Men in Black: Global Pursuit", has just been released, and as a spin-off movie, its pursuit seems to be to make more passers-by fans accept; for die-hard fans, it is not so friendly.
So at this time, it may be a good choice to review the third part!