Welcome Back Mr Smith

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2017)

Men In Black 3 (2012)
Will Smith took an unheard of 4 years off (something he had never done before) after Seven Pounds, to help promote his children in show business. His daughter had a hit single with Whip My Hair and his son Jaden started in the remake of The Karate Kid and dabbled in music too. When he returned to the big screen, he played it safe and went with a sequel to one of his biggest hits.
Plot In A Paragraph: Agent J (Smith) travels in time to M.I.B.'s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.
4 years is a long time between movies for an actor, and it's pretty much like American audiences didn't really care when he returned. Even in a big budget sequel, he couldn't crack the top 10. It is the highest grossing entry in the MIB series globally though.
Personally this is my favourite Men In Black movie, it's vastly superior to the second and more touching than the first. Josh Brolin totally steals the show as a young Tommy Lee Jones, who doesn't really have much to do. I'm not sure why Nicole Scherzinger was hired, what is nothing more than a cameo and some close ups of her boobs. Another nice performance for me was Michael Stuhlbarg who plays Griffin in what can only be described as a Robin Williams esque performance. He is a joy.
Men In Black grossed $179 million at the domestic box office, to end the year the 14th highest grossing movie of 2012.