Mickey 17
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Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
What critics thought
Bong Joon Ho's return to science fiction earns generally favorable notices for its genre-hopping energy and Robert Pattinson's committed performance, but critics are genuinely split on whether the film's ambitions hold together — with fans celebrating its anarchic satire of worker disposability and detractors finding it bloated, tonally scattered, and less precisely targeted than Parasite. Mark Ruffalo's villain also divided opinion, read by some as sharp political caricature and by others as too broad to land its punches.
“The film veers from slapstick to absurdism to horror and back again, often within a single shot, such as the regular sight of the latest Pattinson clone flopping out of the meat printer with a sausagey flumph.”
Robbie Collin·The Daily Telegraph
“Bong is one of the few filmmakers who can work at this scale, with elaborate production design and intricate visual effects, and still retain his artistic signature.”
Justin Chang·NPR
“Perhaps if Bong had focused on the clone idea, more intricately exploring the corporate world's annihilating treatment of workers, he could have arrived at something rattling, even profound. Alas, he is ultimately too enamored of his wiggly animal creations, and by the broadest of jokes about TV camera-obsessed petty tyrants. In all its diminished attention span, Mickey 17 plays less like a new declaration from a great master and more like a feverish TikTok 'doom scroll' leading nowhere.”
Richard Lawson·Vanity Fair
“much of this film devolves into narrative chaos, bloat and excess.”
Jocelyn Noveck·Associated Press
Genres
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
Bong Joon HoDirector
Robert PattinsonMickey Barnes
Naomi AckieNasha
Steven YeunTimo
Mark RuffaloKenneth Marshall
Toni ColletteYlfa
Anamaria VartolomeiKai Katz
Daniel HenshallPreston
Patsy FerranDorothy
Steve ParkZeke
Tim KeyPigeon Man
Holliday GraingerRed Hair
Michael MonroeMatthew
Jung Jae-ilComposer
Edward AshtonWriter
Darius KhondjiCinematographyFrom the studio
Mickey 17
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
What critics thought
Bong Joon Ho's return to science fiction earns generally favorable notices for its genre-hopping energy and Robert Pattinson's committed performance, but critics are genuinely split on whether the film's ambitions hold together — with fans celebrating its anarchic satire of worker disposability and detractors finding it bloated, tonally scattered, and less precisely targeted than Parasite. Mark Ruffalo's villain also divided opinion, read by some as sharp political caricature and by others as too broad to land its punches.
“The film veers from slapstick to absurdism to horror and back again, often within a single shot, such as the regular sight of the latest Pattinson clone flopping out of the meat printer with a sausagey flumph.”
Robbie Collin·The Daily Telegraph
“Bong is one of the few filmmakers who can work at this scale, with elaborate production design and intricate visual effects, and still retain his artistic signature.”
Justin Chang·NPR
“Perhaps if Bong had focused on the clone idea, more intricately exploring the corporate world's annihilating treatment of workers, he could have arrived at something rattling, even profound. Alas, he is ultimately too enamored of his wiggly animal creations, and by the broadest of jokes about TV camera-obsessed petty tyrants. In all its diminished attention span, Mickey 17 plays less like a new declaration from a great master and more like a feverish TikTok 'doom scroll' leading nowhere.”
Richard Lawson·Vanity Fair
“much of this film devolves into narrative chaos, bloat and excess.”
Jocelyn Noveck·Associated Press
Genres
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
Bong Joon HoDirectorRobert PattinsonMickey BarnesNaomi AckieNashaSteven YeunTimoMark RuffaloKenneth MarshallToni ColletteYlfaAnamaria VartolomeiKai KatzDaniel HenshallPrestonPatsy FerranDorothySteve ParkZekeTim KeyPigeon ManHolliday GraingerRed HairMichael MonroeMatthewJung Jae-ilComposerEdward AshtonWriterDarius KhondjiCinematographyFrom the studio
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