Mickey 17 Review

 

Mickey 17 is a sci-fi dark comedy movie based on Edward Ashton's 2022 novel, Mickey7. Productions was handled by Plan B Entertainment, Offscreen, and Kate Street Picture Company with Warner Bros. Pictures doing distribution. Bong Joon-ho both wrote and directed.

The story is, along with his friend Mickey has a failed business venture and is currently running from a loan shark. Wanting to escape they sign up to be the crew on a space ship. While Mickey's friend is given the job of a pilot Mickey is an expendable, meaning he's given highly dangerous jobs that'll kill him then he's cloned back to life. One day, Mickey 17 is mistakenly reported dead and after returning to the ship he now has to deal with a new problem. His clone, Mickey 18.

Initial Reaction

Now I didn't have this in my most anticipated list because I had no intention of seeing it. Especially since I've never one Bong Joon-ho film. But then I caught a commercial and decided to give this a chance.

Cons

The only thing I didn't like were the villains, Kenneth and Ylfa Marshall played by Mark Rufflo and Toni Collete. Now everybody can be over the top but with these two it was just too much. They felt less like characters meant for this movie's world, and characters meant for an SNL skit, a bad one.

Middle Ground

I've got nothing.

Pros

One pro is the humor. It's wonderfully dark and got a lot of laughs from the audience. Then there's the character of Mickey. The guy just has the worse of luck. He felt like a kicked puppy. He just want to protect the guy, that's how much sympathy you'll have for him. So yes, Mickey is a character you'll easily like. Speaking of the character let's talk about the actor who plays him, Robert Pattinson. I know he's been in other movies prior to what I'm gonna list, but for me, having seen him in Tenet, The Devil All the Time, The Batman (by the way 🤞🏻 that sequel won't head for cancelation), and this, it truly blows me away how Robert can no longer be viewed as "The Twilight Guy". Not only does he play Mickey, but he's playing two of them both of which have very different personalities. And he plays off of himself very well. Do you have any idea how difficult that is? He either has to pretend to talk to somebody there or pretend his body double is a different him. That's talent right there. My last praise goes to the tones. While it keeps its sci-fi dark comedy aspects, it can also be a love story and then at one point because a rebellion movie. And what's funny is none of this stuff clashed. It all fit together perfectly.

While you might find some sort of issue or possibly issues, Mickey 17 is a very fun movie to watch.

My final rating is, Good.

That's all for now. Come back on Monday, Mar 10th, for my Classic Film Night review of Fight Club. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.