first impressions : critically , <NEG> a close-to-awful film , </NEG> but money-wise , it has been doing ( and will continue to do ) great . a sometimes-funny film that sags and lags and <NEG> oftentimes gets boring </NEG> . an orginal plot that <NEG> grows old real fast </NEG> . one of the only 90 minute films that <NEG> i've gotten bored through </NEG> . men in black has defied the odds . when i first saw that the flick was 89 minutes long , i thought maybe that this was a poor attempt at an independence day type film that just ran out of gas . however , i now realize that not only did men in black <NEG> run out of gas </NEG> , but the film in 90 minutes manages to show off a very original idea ( which summer audiences have embraced ) that <NEG> becomes old </NEG> about 25 minutes into the movie . tommy lee jones and will smith play two " government " agents who are responsible for keeping order in alien society . the <NEG> ridiculous plot </NEG> begins when an alien " bug " , played weirdly by vincent d'onofrio , who was so great in full metal jacket , lands on earth to retrieve a galaxy that's somewhere on " orion's belt . " anyway , the basic plot revolves around jones and smith to stop this bug from getting the galaxy , or a higher power will blow up the earth . <NEG> the premise is ridulous </NEG> , but that is not why i didn't like this film . i love original plots . this one had an original one . but director barry sonnenfeld did something to this film that ruined its plot : <NEG> he made the film drag and also put in unncessary elements </NEG> in it that are found in romance films . whenever i saw d'onofrio's bug stomp and eat people in the film , <NEG> it got terribly boring </NEG> after a while . while smith's wise-cracks did fill in the gaps , it wasn't enough . and also , i cannot believe the screenwriters elected to have a sub-plot where tommy lee jones missed his former lover because as an alien agent , they can't have contact with any humans really . and here i see jones , at a satellite computer , watching his lover plant the garden ? a sentimental moment in an alien movie ? nice try , but i don't think so . <NEG> it doesn't work here </NEG> . it just makes the movie <NEG> even more ridiculous and even more boring </NEG> : we don't only have aliens to worry about , but now we have jones's conscience . i came into the movie not wanting to see jones's conscience , but wanting to see a real action movie that had lots of aliens in it . maybe it's unfair that i partly judged this movie on what my expectations were . nevertheless , even though some parts are indeed funny , <NEG> the plot in this movie grew old and boring -- quick . </NEG>
