Lamar Reviews - Mickey 17 (Airdate 3/14/2025)
First week out Mickey 17 is number 1 at the box office. The critics love it, and so does the audience. For me, there are some things that are fantastic, and some things not so much.
The movie is based on a book Mickey 7 written by Edward Ashton, Director Bong Joon Ho. I’ll get to the 10 Mickey difference later.
Robert Pattinson plays Mickey 17 and because he made a horrible business decision with a partner that included borrowing from a loan shark that cuts up late payers with a chainsaw. He has the opportunity to flee the planet with a crazy politician that is putting a colony on a distant planet. The ship is full, and the only job left to leave the planet is Expendable, he does not read the job description and paperwork and takes it. The bad news is he’s literally expendable, meaning they can test diseases, poisons, suicide jobs, and many other things that will cause him to die. The good news is they have the technology, which has been banned on Earth, to clone him, over and over. He basically gets reprinted and comes out of a machine that looks like an MRI.
He is called Mickey 17 because he has died 16 times in the most interesting and weird ways, and this is the 17th version of him. If you have seen the trailer, you know there is another Mickey. I won’t spoil for you how that comes to be. But it is a problem.
The movie is 2 hours 17 minutes, Rated-R for violent content, language throughout, sexual content and drug use.
The best thing in this movie is the acting of Robert Pattinson. I can’t say enough about what a great actor he has turned out to be. He killed it as Batman in 2022 and he’s doing Batman 2 in 2027. If you went as far to say he is number 1 Batman over Christian Bale, I would not fight you.
In this dual role of Mickey 17 and Mickey 18, he is a genius. Because of a glitch their personalities are completely different. Mickey 17 is a people-pleaser of the highest order, kind and caring. Mickey 18, not so much. He is selfish, opportunistic, and mostly an a-hole. The way he switches back and forth is amazing. Director Bong Joon-ho insisted on filming certain key scenes without Pattinson knowing which version of Mickey he was playing until a few moments before shooting. He did this because it would capture the confusion and existential dread of a clone struggling with his own identity. I love Pattinson as both characters, absolute great acting.
Mark Ruffalo was over the top, as the politician that is in charge of the mission. He is a religious zealot that craves power and adoration. He and his wife, played by Toni Collette, are so over the top it becomes buffoonish. The movie is at least 25 to 30 minutes too long, and it started to really drag. I couldn’t wait for it to be over.
6 of us went to see it, 3 loved it, 3 didn’t.
I give Robert Pattison’s performance 5 Buds
I give the movie itself 2 Buds maybe it’ just me.
March 14th, 2025, 12:42 pm
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Lamar Reviews - Mickey 17 (Airdate 3/14/2025)
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Lamar Reviews - Mickey 17 (Airdate 3/14/2025)
First week out Mickey 17 is number 1 at the box office. The critics love it, and so does the audience. For me, there are some things that are fantastic, and some things not so much.
The movie is based on a book Mickey 7 written by Edward Ashton, Director Bong Joon Ho. I’ll get to the 10 Mickey difference later.
Robert Pattinson plays Mickey 17 and because he made a horrible business decision with a partner that included borrowing from a loan shark that cuts up late payers with a chainsaw. He has the opportunity to flee the planet with a crazy politician that is putting a colony on a distant planet. The ship is full, and the only job left to leave the planet is Expendable, he does not read the job description and paperwork and takes it. The bad news is he’s literally expendable, meaning they can test diseases, poisons, suicide jobs, and many other things that will cause him to die. The good news is they have the technology, which has been banned on Earth, to clone him, over and over. He basically gets reprinted and comes out of a machine that looks like an MRI.
He is called Mickey 17 because he has died 16 times in the most interesting and weird ways, and this is the 17th version of him. If you have seen the trailer, you know there is another Mickey. I won’t spoil for you how that comes to be. But it is a problem.
The movie is 2 hours 17 minutes, Rated-R for violent content, language throughout, sexual content and drug use.
The best thing in this movie is the acting of Robert Pattinson. I can’t say enough about what a great actor he has turned out to be. He killed it as Batman in 2022 and he’s doing Batman 2 in 2027. If you went as far to say he is number 1 Batman over Christian Bale, I would not fight you.
In this dual role of Mickey 17 and Mickey 18, he is a genius. Because of a glitch their personalities are completely different. Mickey 17 is a people-pleaser of the highest order, kind and caring. Mickey 18, not so much. He is selfish, opportunistic, and mostly an a-hole. The way he switches back and forth is amazing. Director Bong Joon-ho insisted on filming certain key scenes without Pattinson knowing which version of Mickey he was playing until a few moments before shooting. He did this because it would capture the confusion and existential dread of a clone struggling with his own identity. I love Pattinson as both characters, absolute great acting.
Mark Ruffalo was over the top, as the politician that is in charge of the mission. He is a religious zealot that craves power and adoration. He and his wife, played by Toni Collette, are so over the top it becomes buffoonish. The movie is at least 25 to 30 minutes too long, and it started to really drag. I couldn’t wait for it to be over.
6 of us went to see it, 3 loved it, 3 didn’t.
I give Robert Pattison’s performance 5 Buds
I give the movie itself 2 Buds maybe it’ just me.
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