Mickey 17 is a solid science fiction enjoyment until things get a little real

When Mickey 17 it The movie you expect to beIt’s great. Multiple Robert Pattinson Chewing a super cool science fiction landscape, often against dynamite supporting cast. This is a considerable part of the movie, which is also difficult for the interesting world construction and humor managed by characters. Crazy things happenThen more crazy things happen and everything is quite fun. But in the course of the movie, a story that begins as a bundle becomes more important and creates a story and a tonal imbalance that retains the movie from its full potential.

Written and directed by the Oscar-winning Bong John-ho and based on a novel by Edward Ashton, Mickey 17 is placed in the near future, where a unique rotation of cloning technology has been created. The technology perfectly prints a new version of a person to their most memories, and his invention makes all kinds of ethical and religious contradictions. In fact, it is so controversial that it is out of law on earth. But this is the future, so it is permitted in space and through a serious stupid set of events, no one named Mickey (Pattinson) registers for the work of the expense. A person whose job is to die.

Strengthening this setting is a truly incredible job of the world construction. Apparently every question you could have – “How exactly would this work?” “What would the world think?” “How could it be used?”-It is considered a fun, detailed way that can only come from the mind of a true fan of science fiction. Then all this is slowly spreading as we observe Mickey after Mickey live and dies, through all kinds of dangerous work, including testing people for medicines, diseases and more.

Why will anyone have to do human medical tests? This is because, as we learn soon, Mickey’s work is to be spending an expedition of people fed land who hope to carry an alien planet into a deep space. The journey is led by the charismatic but slightly stupid senator Marshall (Mark Rufalo), who has lost two presidential elections and now takes hundreds of passengers to Sicofant to another galaxy, hoping to create a world for himself. It is obsessed with wealth, strength, has golden orange skin, huge teeth, counterfeit hair and … you see where we go with it. He must remind us of this man.

Bong’s films are always socially aware and interesting, even if they can be a little on the nose. From Parasite yes Snowpiercer, yes Oak and HostYou can usually read Bong’s thematic intent as a big, flashing light. What is loaded Mickey 17 Separately, on paper, the political parallels of the film are much better hidden. Marshall and his wife in your face Gwen (Tony Colet) play just a tangential role at the beginning, as the story is more focused on Mickey’s friendship with the selfish Berto (Stephen Yuun) and his growing romance with our soldier (Naomi (Naomi Ackie) S

These relationships have a relative human feeling and, when intertwined with cloning things, they really work. Mickey 17 is best when he examines how the existence of clones would affect the lives of all these characters. But as the space mission continues, the Marshals plan to carry a new planet with a superb human race is becoming more and more common. Slowly but surely overtakes the movie. What was a little stupid and unpredictable at first is much more serious and much more in more pre -pre -favorable, because we, frankly, live in it right now.

The intentions are clear: to show how a person who is so anonymous, no one cares if he dies can face a tyrant. And along the way there are some fun twists that keep things fresh. However, you can almost feel the pleasure you get from the movie, slowly drains about how recognizable everything is. Almost as if things had gone differently last November, the whole movie would play differently. (The movie has made some shift of dates several times and now we are wondering if the distance from the election is part of the reasoning.) November has happened, but now we are living in a world where a Marshall -like leader and his moons are actually governing things, not They run into space.

In the end, the Mickey and Marshall cloning plan is gathering and everything is shifting again. What began as a science fiction study before it became political lightning ends as something else entirely. Good “something else”. It even includes a super cool kind of creatures called “Creepers” that play a huge role. But the separated tones, themes and external forces of the film continue to work against a movie, which at its core has such exciting potential and intention.

As Mickey, Pattinson has the role of life, depicting many versions of himself, often in the same scene. His ability to make us sympathize with Mickey, despite his regeneration, is something that needs to be seen. Ruffalo and Collette also have an incredible time (one word: “sauce”), although the performance of Ruffalo occasionally touches dangerously at imitation. Yeun is perfect as a thin girlfriend you love to hate while Aki finds a perfect balance of strength and playfulness. Everyone in the movie is excellent.

You would just like everything to be in operation of a story that is scary for reasons intended on the screen, not excluded. Mickey 17 is an uneven, enjoyable movie that will almost certainly improve with age, distance and perspective. As it stands, no matter what your political views are, watching it now feels too early to distinguish our reality from its scientific fiction future. But it is certainly unique and strange enough to guarantee a clock.

Mickey 17 He just had his world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. It opens in the United States on March 7th.

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