Mickey 17
Mickey you're so fine
I saw this movie a little over a week ago and in another hemisphere. I saw this film at the Winona 7 in Winona, MN and had a great time.
The Winona 7 is a great theatre that I love visiting whenever I’m with my family in Minnesota. It’s a small cinema that sits on the bank of the mighty Mississippi. You can see a movie then get ice cream and walk along the shores during the summer, the breeze flowing down the majestic river, as you get a brain freeze.
Mickey 17 is a sci-fi movie about a man who signs up for a space program where he’s cloned and his consciousness is transferred to the new body in order to do menial jobs for the company by whom he is employed.
This film is has quirky and off-beat sense of humor, much like many of Bong Joon Ho’s films. It stars Robert Pattinson, the once star of Twilight turned indie cinema’s freak on a leash as the titular Mickey. Robert handles the task of playing more than one version of the same character easily and effectively, with both humor and menace. Noami Ackie is also in the film as Mickey’s love interest, Nasha. I haven’t seen Naomi in anything since Rise Of Skywalker and it’s fun to have her back in yet another movie with cloning and spaceships. She does an an excellent job and has an electric presence on screen.
Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette play the films antagonists with a smarm and theatricality that elevates the satire of the piece quite well.
The designs of the spaceships and creatures in the film are effective. Particularly of the creatures that save the life of Mickey who then helps them return one of their young to them in the movie’s climax.
My only complaints about the picture are as follows: a little too long, the audience I saw the film with wasn’t exactly into it, and I’d like more jokes please.
The film is at its best when it’s a dark comedy. The comedic moments that it has are incredibly strong and I would like to see more of them.
Other than that, it’s an excellent sci-fi film and if you like that sort of junk I’d recommend you see it.
The runtime is 137 minutes.