Tuesday, March 04, 2025
Mickey 17
It’s “Alien” meets “Imperial Stormtroopers” meets “The Expendables” without Stallone, Statham, & Schwarzenegger when a financially destitute Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) volunteers to be a space traveler/lab rat clone in the pursuit of a politician’s dream of colonizing a perfect pure planet, Niflheim. In this sci-fi satirical dark comedy, idealistic plans are steered wrong by a bad politician & bad science. The first 30 minutes plays out as hinted in the trailers, but then the plot takes an unexpected turn as we experience an evil twin, indigenous creatures they call “creepers”, & egomaniacal elitists in a battle between good & evil. This dystopian society takes place in the near future, 2054 & is not a good reflection mankind’s development. Pattinson masters the subtleties of his dual screen role. Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, & Naomi Ackie are among the supporting cast of this Bong Joon Ho directed movie.
Alien gives it 3 “baby creeper” stars out of 4.
