‘Mickey 17’ review: ‘Parasite’ director’s satirical follow-up is a letdown

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which it can’t touch) and “Okja.” It’s far from terrible and a pleasure to look at. But, perhaps inevitably, after such a raging success, Bong’s latest movie is a disappointment.The familiar satire hangs on a great premise, though: a futuristic society that depends on sacrificial clones.

That warped idea is a fitting canvas for Bong’s usual themes and messages — class disparity, capitalism, environmentalism — only they’re held together with bubblegum.

Massive in scope, this rather long sit overindulges and underwhelms. The titular duplicate is played by Robert Pattinson, who entertainingly acts as though he was let out of a straitjacket seconds before Bong yelled, “Action!” He’s never less than unhinged.Admittedly, I can’t look away from former Hollywood franchise idols making bonkers career choices.

See: Daniel Radcliffe playing a farting corpse in “Swiss Army Man” and Elijah Wood in … everything. This is one of those curveballs from the adventurous star of “Twilight.” Sometimes, he does “The Batman,” and sometimes he does “The Lighthouse.”With a squeaky voice and the frightened face of a baby bird, Pattinson plays Mickey, an “expendable” who’s on a futuristic space journey to settle an ice planet called Niflheim.