‘Mickey 17’ Review: It’s Robert Pattinson x 2 In Bong Joon Ho’s Hilarious, Humane & Thought-Provoking Satire – Berlin Film Festival
deadline.comAlthough it is science-fiction to its core, director Bong Joon Ho‘s first film since his Oscar-winning Parasite six years ago is in many ways a not-that-absurd look at where we just might be headed as a society.
Mickey 17 is on its surface about a hapless, slightly less than average macaroon chef who no longer can take Earth and its ever-so-decaying condition that has led thousands daily to board a spaceship to a more promising planet life — or so they think.
Nevertheless, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) is just a guy whose life is seen as expendable (a word he uses on his application), and like a lab rat, his new day job is — wait for it — dying.
Yes, Mickey is part of constant experiments to help researchers see what causes death and disease, and so he is put through the ringer and reprinted repeatedly, dying over and over again, always being printed again to continue the process.
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