1997 · sci-fi · comedy · action
Men in Black
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld1h 38m1997
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
Our read: Men in Black (1997) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive sci-fi · comedy · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured sci-fi / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- funny
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