Lonesome Dove and Bad Boys?

Rating: Null/10 (18 April 2001)

This is Columbia Pictures' visually appetising feature about a street smart NYPD cop who discovers and becomes part of the MIB, a secret agency licensed to monitor extra terrestrial life on the planet Earth. This film combines two unlikley talents, that of Will Smith (Bad Boys) and Tommy Lee Jones (Lonesome Dove). It's hard to contemplate but after you've seen the film you'll see that they're great together as partners. Director Barry Sonnenfeld (The Addams Family, Get Shorty) is most notably compared to Tim Burton in the way in which he shot this movie. Some of the ways in which he captured a shot haven't really ever been done before. The soundtrack is also to boast. Will Smith's single 'Men In Black' got great publicity for the picture and Danny Elfman's 'Cool' score is even better. It combined fast paced Orchestrations with synth and beautiful guitar solos.