In Bong Joon Ho's 'Mickey 17', Robert Pattinson has excellent chemistry — with himself

Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Mickey 17’ is another indictment of class warfare and capitalism — but in space

This slapstick sci-fi revels in its own ridiculousness

Why 'Mickey 17' Just Doesn't Work

‘Mickey 17’ (MovieStillsDB)On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) try to fairly adjudicate Kathleen Kennedy’s run at the Disney-owned Lucasfilm. Then they review Mickey 17, a movie that’s more committed to timely satire than big ideas. Make sure to swing by Bulwark+ on Friday for an episode on the new literalism. And if you enjoyed this episode, share it with a frien…

Movie Review - Mickey 17

Movie Review - Mickey 17 kcpnews2 Tue, 03/11/2025 - 05:00 Image (Kiowa County Press) “Mickey 17” is the kind of movie where you just have to trust the filmmaker to take you on a ride. Fortunately, it’s a filmmaker who has proven trustworthy with such rides in the past. Six years ago, writer/director Bong Joon-ho released “Parasite,” another movie that didn’t really telegraph its story. Even if people knew about its early stages about an impove…

Review: ‘Mickey 17,’ with Robert Pattinson (and clone) tackling the worst job in the universe

Set 29 years from now, writer-director Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” imagines a world beyond ours because Earth isn’t worth the trouble anymore. Failed politician Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo), taking a page from the Elon Musk interstellar-ambitions handbook, gains a new lease on his career by leading a cultlike space colonization mission to the icy planet Niflheim. And there they are: Niflheim mysterious, oversized, toothy bugs, the native life …

'Mickey 17' combines black comedy and sci-fi

In a reality where Earth is so rancid that becoming an expendable laborer in space is desirable, Robert Pattinson plays a human crash test dummy who faces the gruesome with glibness.

What Can We Learn From the Delightfully Wacky Ending of 'Mickey 17'?

Director Bong Joon Ho said sci-fi films are meant to be “a portrait of us now and the reality around us, not of somewhere far out in space.”