Men in Black
“Protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe.”
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
How Men in Black compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Men in Black, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 3
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 41%
- Share of the series audience
Men in Black (1997) is the highest-rated of the 3 rated films in the Men in Black series, at 7.2/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.7/10.
It is the film that started the series, 15 years before the most recent entry, Men in Black 3 (2012).
Its 15,164 TMDB ratings are 41% of the 37,233 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Men in Black, comparing all 3 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
Men in Black
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