GHOSTBUSTERS meets
The X-Files. This sci-fi action comedy -- directed with all the considerable panache Barry Sonnenfeld can muster, and very clever in a deeply shallow sort of way -- posits that all those paranoid UFO nuts babbling
about the government sending mysterious "Men in Black" to cover up evidence of alien visitations are absolutely right. Since the late 1950s, displaced Bug-Eyed Monsters have been assuming human form and quietly settling into new lives, mostly alongside the rest of the huddled masses yearning to
breathe free in New York City. "It's like CASABLANCA," says MIB Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones), the old alien hand, "but without the Nazis." ...
Released:
1997
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
98 mins