Rent Mickey 17 (2025)

Ohh mickey your not fine - Mickey 17 review by cr

Well this is one of the oddist films i have seen in a while.

Mickey and his friend attempt to open a macaroon business borrow heavily and get pursued by mobsters so jump on the nearest ship to ice world nilfiheim.

His mate is a pilot but he goes as an expendable who are used in experiments and suicide missions and are printed out human 3d printer style with their memories saved to hard drive when they are killed.

Much "hilarity" ensues when mickey 17 doesnt die and mickey 18 is spewed out the printer and their are two mickeys as duplicates.

I guess you could call it broad satire played for laughs but its not funny. There is a lot of mugging and over acting especially from mark ruffalo and toni collette and i struggled with what the point of it all was.

Was it to make a point about corporations and their billionaire bosses treating minimum wage workers like dirt while they wallow in luxury or was it the evils of technology or dumb human nature with its lazy incompetenance and disregard for nature and our planet?

Answers on a postcard!

Its too long tries to make too many points and isnt funny enough.

But good visuals and has some fun original ideas.

You don't get to choose your replacements — but you will choose to rewatch this. - Mickey 17 review by griggs

Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 is a thrilling sci-fi journey that effortlessly juggles humour, horror, and heart. It’s a rollercoaster of entertainment, not as weighty as Parasite, but an absolute joyride—brimming with energy and jaw-dropping production design that makes every frame pop. Robert Pattinson does his usual thing, blending charm with quiet torment, but the real stars here are Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette.

Ruffalo is on another level, playing the villain with a perfect mix of tech-bro arrogance and full-blown cult leader madness—part Trump, part Musk, part David Miscavige, and just unhinged enough to feel all too real. In today’s world, people will be projecting their least favourite political figure onto him for years. Collette, who’s way too often underused, goes full scene-stealer here, bringing a wicked stepmother-meets-pantomime villain energy that cranks up the fun.

Bong, as always, directs with masterful ease, balancing big ideas with blockbuster spectacle. Beneath the dazzling visuals and creeping horror, there’s real emotional weight too. Mickey 17 might not be Bong’s deepest film, but it’s a slick, endlessly entertaining sci-fi romp that promises to be rewatched and dissected for years to come.

Overlong, OTT, Bloated, Unfunny, Misfiring Attempted Satire. Based on a 2022 Sci-fi Novel. - Mickey 17 review by PV

Based on a 2022 sci-fi novel, this movie is not for me - I find the director massively over-rated too (who has a track record of silly monster movies in Korea, I see).

It is too long, silly, tiresome, misfiring satire - esp with Mark Ruffalo doing his best Trump impression - and eye-rollingly tiresome.

Not original - cloning etc done since Brave New World in 1930s and MANY times since. Various bodyshock dramas, films about twins etc.

It may appeal to sci-fi fans but I suspect the novel is better - imagining stuff is often better, esp re alien life forms etc. BUT only enough here to sustain a short story WHICH actually was the author Edward Ashton's original intention for the story.

The director here wrote the screenplay with the author - always a danger sign. EDITS NEEDED. Fresh eyes to slice off the flab and give the script focus. THIS is a bloated director's cut really and the Oscar-winner (for the over-rated Parasite) can obvs greenlight ANYTHING in Hollywood, which is NOT always a good thing. Because it leads to misfiring big-budget bloated pet projects like this.

The only new original idea here is the 3D-printing of people concept. The rest has been done.

Predictable CGI which is as OTT as the whole bloated movie, and some absurd, silly scenes - which were LAUGH AT not LAUGH WITH.

As another review said this socalled satire is just not funny and does not hit the target - ever. It's an OTT mess, a panto really with cartoon characters. A comic strip.

There is GREAT satire out there in novels and films too - find it; avoid this misfiring blobmonster mess of a movie.

Strictly for scifi fans only. 1.5 stars rounded up.