Mickey 17
MICKEY 17 from 2025 is ostensibly my kind of cinematic oddity. But I had a feeling it wouldn't completely land. It's one of those movies with lots of crazy/funny ideas without much, if any, cohesion. A film that might've worked had it stuck with just one of its many wild notions and riffed on it until an inevitably clever ending. Instead, writer/director Bong Joon Ho, who adapts Edward Ashton's novel, introduces multiple threads that never quite gel and drives them to a rather conventional finale. It's science fiction in a not too far away future commenting on present day, as the genre tends to do. Mickey (Robert Pattinson) has signed up to become an "Expendable" - a grunt worker who, upon dying each time, will be cloned in a 3-D printer with previous memories intact. He has joined a mission to the ice planet Niflheim, running from a loan shark back on Earth. The seventeenth iteration of Mickey will find himself in no man's land when he is suppo...
