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Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho’s latest film, Mickey 17, is described as a sci-fi parable about the troubled world we live in today.
Starring Robert Pattinson, the darkly comedic sci-fi film has been met with some mixed reviews from critics, but everyone seems to agree that the Twilight heart-throb does a brilliant job as the titular disposable worker.
Based on the 2022 novel “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton, the film also stars Naomi Ackie (last seen in the mind-bending horror flick Blink Twice), with Aussie acting legend Toni Collette and MCU star Mark Ruffalo lending their weight to the flick.
Ruffalo goes all in as Kenneth Marshall, a blustering wannabe dictator with Trumpian vibes, and Collette knocks it out of the park as his doting wife – and the real brains behind his totalitarian vision.
Surprisingly, this movie doesn’t have Zendaya in it.
Set on a faraway, frozen and hostile planet, the story follows Mickey Barnes (Pattinson), a disposable worker sent on dangerous, often fatal, missions for a human colony trying to establish itself in alien territory populated by giant insect-like beings.
Whenever one version of Mickey dies, a new clone with the same memories and lived experiences, takes his place.
When Mickey 17, presumed dead, returns to find Mickey 18 already living his life, the story spirals into a darkly comedic exploration of what it really means to be a human being.
While critics have noted that the film occasionally feels a bit “overstuffed”, the general consensus is that it’s a smart, weird and surprisingly heartfelt ride.
[Source: The Sun]
