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MICKEY 17 – Jae-Il Jung
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
After Korean director Joon-Ho Bong won multiple Oscars for his film Parasite in 2019 many people wondered what he would do as a follow-up to that success. The answer is Mickey 17, a genre-defying sci-fi/action/comedy based on the novel by Edward Ashton. Set in a dystopian future, the plot follows a man named Mickey who joins a space colony expedition to a distant planet called Niflheim where he is employed as an “expendable” – a disposable human worker who is intentionally allowed to die for research purposes, but who is immediately ‘re-born’ as a clone of himself the next day, with all his memories and personality intact. The film stars Robert Pattison as Mickey, Naomi Ackie as Mickey’s girlfriend Nasha, and Steven Yeun as Mickey’s friend Timo, and features Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo in major supporting roles as the sinister husband-and-wife leaders of the Niflheim expedition. Read more…
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