Mickey 17 – Saturday 15th March 2025

The main reason I watched this film, is because of the film’s director, Bong Joon Ho. The guy rarely disappoints, and his other science fiction film, Snowpiercer, is one of my all-time favourites!

I was aware of the mixed reviews (although I hadn’t read any of them), so tempered my expectations.

The film was okay, but the tone was a bit all over the place, and it was definitely too long. At times, you felt a sense of pathos for the protagonist, but the villains were practically pantomime villains (and an obvious reference to Trump/Musk), and cheapened the film’s effect.

The film’s ‘messaging’ was anything but subtle, but if the director got away with it in ‘Parasite’ you can see why he’d go all in with this film too. In this instance, it was just too ‘over the top’.

Not a bad film, but not great either; Robert Pattinson does a good job though.