Fresh and cool!

Rating: 8/10 (25 January 2003)

(8 out of 10) 'Men in Black' is a too-cool-for-you science fiction epic! Based upon a cult comic book, it presents aliens as real (as real as Tony Robbins!), and the government as secretive as some of our paranoid citizens think they are.
The movie keeps pulling surprises out of its bag of tricks, from regrowing alien heads to a giant cockroach alien! And it does so with a good plot with a funny twist end!
Smith and Jones are a great team. Most movie buddy movies where they pit opposite types against each other fail because it's so obvious. This works because Smith and Jones are so damn cool! They seem to be trying to outdo each other with their coolness, and we get to benefit. Best of all, we CARE about these two lead characters, how they got where they are, and what happens to them. In science fiction films, often the effects overwhelm the characters, but not here.
I absolutely LOVE Vincent D'Onofrio in this! When I watch him on Law and Order, sometimes he says things a bit like the alien in this movie!

The special effects are great, the storyline is fascinating, the jokes are great, and the cast is perfect! A fun film to watch over and over!