Fresh
Men in Black is the wryest, sharpest, most entertaining special effects film in recent memory, a simultaneous participant and mocking parody of the more-bang-for-your-buck behemoth genre.
Paul Tatara, CNN.com
Men in Black
Protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe.
1997 · 1h 38m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Barry Sonnenfeld
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Men In Black deserves credit for supplementing its special effects with a breezy script and genuinely charismatic performances by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
Stephen Thompson, AV Club
Fresh
Its attitude is poised somewhere between the deadpan ghoulishness of the Coen brothers and a Letterman-like sense of the absurdity of life in New York's rich ethnic stew.
Dave Kehr, New York Daily News
Rotten
Men in Black is moderately amusing, well-constructed and mercifully short, but it fails to deliver on the zaniness of its first half.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Fresh
There's a playfulness, here, that you don't often find in a special-effect flick.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
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