Will Smith discovers Agent K's secret

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2013)

Director Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black 3 had some production issues throughout the years and that's why it took until last year for it to come out. Because of a stoppage and a script rewrite, the beginning, middle, and end were not really put together, but it really didn't show in the movie. The film began when an evil alien known as Boris The Animal who is played by Jemaine Clement manages to escape from a maximum security prison on the moon. Boris wants to take revenge on Agent K who is played by Tommy Lee Jones.
Boris uses time travel and goes back to 1969. The year that his plans for world domination were disrupted and kills the young Agent K, leaving Agent J played by Will Smith living in a future without his longtime partner. After discovering what is going on, Agent J travels back in time himself to both stop young Agent K who is played by Josh Brolin from being murdered and save the world from Boris. This movie almost makes you think that everything happening in the movie is happening in real life. At the very least the script does give a good platform for the film's uniformly great performances.
Will Smith shows that he still has plenty of spunk and chemistry left with Jones, verbal timing and physical humor. Though it's a tad gimmicky, I thought Josh Brolin did a great job using his impression of Tommy Lee Jones as the young Agent K. Josh Brolin wasn't the star of the show, Michael Stuhlbarg was the star. Playing an alien known as Griffin, a being that can see all possible time lines and variations of universes at once, Michael Stuhlbarg is a thrill to watch as he thinks out loud about what's going to happen next and worries about the most negative of outcomes.
It's a wonderful performance backed with an interesting character design and the highlight of the movie. Once the movie finally travels back to the late 60s, the story actually gets interesting and is just clever enough to keep the audience's attention. As with the other films in the series, there are many mysteries hidden throughout such as Tim Burton and Yao Ming play aliens on monitors in the Men in Black headquarters, and Bill Hader plays Andy Warhol, who is just an undercover MiB agent out of ideas. This is the best movie I have seen and is going to be a classic. Just having Will Smith should make you want to watch it.