Mickey 17

CinemaSerf

6/10

“Mickey” (Robert Pattinson) is desperate to avoid a grisly fate at the hands of a loan shark, so decides his best bet is to get off-planet. Thing is, there are an whole load of like-minded folk so his only hope is to be an expendable. That means he gets used for all the dangerous and experimental tasks and if he gets killed or seriously maimed, they just lob him in the incinerator and reprint him ...

r96sk

10/10

<em>'Mickey 17'</em> is a blast! What a fun time at the cinema this was. It delivers a super engaging plot, an excellent cast and some tremendous special effects. I, like almost everyone, love Bong Joon Ho's <em>'Parasite'</em>, but personally I'd rank this one of his higher. That's likely a personal thing, this is more entertaining and highly likely more rewatchable; that named 2019 flick is q...

Nothing incredibly groundbreaking, and a little heavy handed with the satire, but a fun ride and well shot, with all of the "I shouldn't laugh at this but I am" that you'd expect I am guilty, as many others will be, of comparing this to Parasite. Doing so is doing the movie a disservice. From Bong Joon Ho I was not expecting a silly black comedy that would have the whole theater laughing. Accep...

"Mickey 17" for those of us, old enough to remember has a Jerry Lewis in space, vibe. Mickey's a sad sack, goofy, kind of misfit, who finds himself becoming essentially, a recyclable "crash test dummy", in space, to avoid an arguably worse fate, on earth, at the hands of sadistic, loan sharks. Simply put, this irritated me from beginning to end. Its not what it needs to be, that is, genui...