A masterpiece from Bong Joon Ho
Mickey 17 is a great sci-fi movie, packed with good humor, action, romance and touching moments. It’s a nice picture of humanity and modern society. It’s a good blend of entertainment and politics elements.I had fun watching it, with only me in the cinema. It seems that no one in my town watches this movie. It’s been released in our local cinemas for a week and today is the last day. Anyway, I had the best experience ever!
I love Robert Pattinson’s performance of Mickey. His romance is beautiful as well. Nasha is literally the best female character I’ve seen recently.
It’s also nice to see Mark Ruffalo as a villain. :)
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A clumsy dystopian rehash
Crap. From the get-go Mickey isn't likeable and his fake Southern accent is grating. The rest is a formality, without a protagonist it can't succeed: Thought is speech - not in this movie. It's just speech, no thought. No subtlety at all, as blunt as a wooden spoon. Okja meets Snowpiercer meets The Hunger Games, all in the style of the great Terry Gilliam*. Toni Collette plays Tilda Swinton. Ruffalo injects a bit of Trump - TDS personified, about as witty as a SNL skit. And the voice over? No, we don't need a running commentary, neither did Blade Runner. The dialogue becomes increasingly profane and childish (it's never at an adult level at any stage) similar to how stand up comedians fill their set with expletives when the audience isn't laughing along. Finally, Bong's dystopian vision is tedious; a much smarter dystopia is portrayed in films like Children of Men, which examine humanity without the need for clumsy theatrics.(* Yes, a science fiction vision from the 1980s, like Brazil with a cast full of Python-esque art deco caricatures, doesn't sit well when reproduced in 2025.)
TDS: Trump Derangement Syndrome
SNL: Saturday Night Live
Brazil: 1985 film by Terry Gilliam
Children of Men: best dystopian sci-fi film ever made, prophetic.
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Attempt at a dark comedy
The plus of the movie is a certain unpredictability of the story and the interesting idea of moral dilemmas concerning what happens to Mickey. So I really liked the final point that the movie makes switching the title of the Movie, but still, the manner in which the movie is made was just so absurd and parodical that it was unpleasant to watch for me most of the time.It is hard to comment the acting also. Robert Pattinson was certainly very good, Steven Yeun was fine and Anamaria Vartolomei is very beautiful. The rest were comical beyond my understanding. I was put off by the actors trying so hard to represent the presidential candidates of the USA. I have seen many great imitations of Trump, but this one was the worst, just a strait mockery.
Seeing most of Bong Joon-ho directorial works I can see the pattern - a social political satire with highlighted class divide and raising awareness on some important issues. I commend it and I still look forward to more of his movies but this one was a little over the top for me.
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