Agent J must go back in time to save Agent K (and the Earth)

Rating: 7/10 (24 November 2016)

This, the final 'Men in Black' film, opens with a jail break; it involves no ordinary prisoner and no ordinary prison Boris the Animal, a Boglodite, has been incarcerated in a Super-Max prison on the moon for forty years and he now wants his revenge on the man who put him there Agent K. Once back on Earth he unsuccessfully attacks K. Agent J asks him about Boris but he doesn't want to talk about it and all the files are highly classified. He does eventually learn that K stopped Boris at Cape Canaveral and the day of the Apollo XI launch and saved the planet by deploying a device known as the 'ArcNet'.
Boris hasn't given up his plan for revenge and travels back in time the next day Agent J is the only person for remembers K. History has been changed; this time Boris killed K and ArcNet wasn't deployed. Now the Boglodites are about to destroy Earth. Agent Jay must travel back in time to save his former partner and help stop Boris. It won't be easy though; nobody in 1969 knows Agent J and the world then was rather different to that in 2012.
This film is a solid conclusion to the Men in Black trilogy. It opens well with an exciting jailbreak; this introduces Boris well as it shows us how dangerous he is. The time travel plot is fun; I particularly liked how most of the aliens in 1969 looked like men in costumes rather than the CGI aliens of 2012 just like typical sci-fi of the time! There were plenty of good gags; perhaps the best being when they meet Andy Warhol I was expecting the obvious gag about him really being an alien but this was brilliantly dodged by having him be an undercover Man in Black. The final confrontation between Agents J and K and the two Borises (the one from 2012 and the original 1969 one) was exciting and having it take place at the Apollo XI launch was rather fun. The ending was a bit twee but not enough to spoil the story in fact I'm sure many viewers will really like it. Will Smith does a fine job as Agent J and Tommy Lee Jones is fun as the taciturn 2012 Agent K. Josh Brolin is a welcome addition as 1969 Agent K and Jemaine Clement makes a good bad guy as Boris. Sadly 'Frank the Pug' doesn't even get a mention in this film which is a pity as he was one of the funniest characters in the previous film. Overall this was a fun conclusion to the trilogy.