Mickey 17 Review: See Robert Pattinson Die, repeat and make you laugh

In the not too distant future, it would seem that, rather than trying to save the earth, people have pivoted the idea of ​​leaving it to find a new planet to consume and separate. The colonists on the Nilfheim project are such a group, following a fanatic and failed American politician, with a god complex, Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo). An ordinary modern day Joseph Smith, Marshall convinced a legion of followers, hangers and poor working to join them among the stars. This includes OG Mickey from Pattinson, who went into space as much to get rid of some loan sharks’ debts to see the universe. He is so desperate to go outside the world that he even accepts to become “an expense”, which is a fantasy term for the type on each ship that has its memories supported on a hard disk and its body has signed the company. A disposable workforce is a disposable workforce. A slave with another name.

Due to strange religious restrictions, there can be only a constant one at one point. Once inevitably it has died in a heavy way, while performing any suicide task is placed before it, another mickey is printed in the intestines of a ship and is suitable for service. Which does not mean that Mickey’s life is all unpleasant. He meets a girl who falls in love with this journey, and the security agent Nasha Barridge (Naomi Ackie) seems quite cold with the whole “my lover continues to die and return as another kind of clone.” So he waits for it until we reach Mickey 17, which, despite being left dead in that above -mentioned ramp, does not actually die. He reaches his colonist ship, even. Unfortunately, he gets to discover that they have already printed another Mickey: the most aggressive and with short temperament Mickey 18. And, according to the law established by zealots such as Ruffalo’s Marshall, it can be only one.

Here things start to become really strange.

Essentially an expansion of the genre film on bit Saddle saddle If two racist supervisors drain to save ‘A hand of $ 400“While leaving their black employees to die in a pit and politics of Mickey 17 are not subtle. However, they are amusing oblique. Told from the point of view of a protagonist who repeatedly dies in terrible and cruel ways, the loud humor of Mickey 17 It is as thick as gags. Using various assemblies and sequences of death that would not be out of place in one of the old Wile E. Coyote cartoons, bong coupls watches with cut hands floating in space, with mickey or 6 sequences, encouraged to “breathe in profound” all the bacteria in a world, vaccine.

There is a more lively understanding Mickey He is curious delightful. Many of these refer to Pattinson’s choice to play the different versions of the same character with a happy-glossy optimism, which deals with the deception, given the lot of every mickey. However more than a sketch comedy, Mickey 17 It allows several versions of this character, especially Mickeys 17 and 18, to have both subtle and excessive differences. While Mickey 17 develops something that is approaching empathy and self -awareness, he is also that another character suggests “soft”. Instead, Mickey 18, has no awareness, but enjoys a hell of a much stronger survival instinct. His first reaction when he saw that his predecessor returns to life is to try immediately to fill Mickey 17 on a trash that leads to a fire pit.

Mickey 17 Acts as a synthesis for all the genre in the past bong, including the most obvious Snowpiercer With its dystopian vision of the future (although it also seems to channel much more from Ridley Scott and Ron Cobb with the appearance of this spacecraft). There are also elements of creature features Host and even the sympathies of the pro-animal rights of Okja. It is not as well treated as any of these films and can suffer the most of what seems to be a post-production will fight. Based only on the strong emphasis of the vocal narrative and the bizarre absence of characterization in several supporting roles, especially Nasha Ackie, it is suspected that this film has been cut. However, a large part of what Bong’s movies are unforgettable, including Gonzo characters who extend beyond the lead role.