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Robert Pattinson shines in clunky sci-fi adaptation Mickey 17

Our hero Mickey accidentally breaks the rules when he's "reprinted", in a tired take on an old trope, finds film columnist Simon Ings

By Simon Ings

2 April 2025

C8D-TRL2-003 Film Name: MICKEY 17 Copyright: ? 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Caption: ROBERT PATTINSON as Mickey 17 in ?MICKEY 17,? a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (PRESS KIT)

Mickey (Robert Pattinson) can be reprinted when he dies – if he can take it

Warner Bros. Pictures

Mickey 17
Bong Joon Ho
On general release

In Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson stars as the “expendable” Mickey. Put him in harm’s way and if he dies, you can just print another. And for human colonists on the ice planet of Niflheim, there is plenty of harm to get into. There’s the cold. And the general lack of everything, so the settlers must count every calorie and weigh every metal shaving. Most troublesome are the weevil-like creatures that chomp through the planet’s ice and rock. What they will do to the humans’ tin-can settlement is anyone’s guess.…

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