At the very first, Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) delivers a monologue against a West Texas backdrop.
Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, Men in black.
Hugo Weaving, as the chief Agent, USES a flat, menacing tone that reminded me of Tommy Lee Jones in passive-aggressive overdrive.
When this masterpiece later went on the become a TV miniseries in 1990, director Tommy Lee Wallace casted British actor Tim Curry to play the child slaughtering clown Pennywise.
We'll miss it if Tommy Lee wins best actor and the film goes on to win an Oscars as well as the Golden Lion itself.