Mickey 17

⭐7.5/10

This is the latest from Bong Joo Ho (Parasite and others) and I really love the premise. In the future, Robert Pattinson is an expendable on a space mission, which means that when there is a job that will likely result in death, he's assigned to it, but when he dies, he is 're-printed' so he can do it again. It's similar to Groundhog Day and others where it lends itself to extremely dark humour where death is meaningless but still painful. In this movie, Pattinson is basically used for human experimentation, subject to every horror for the good of mankind. 

I loved the first half of this movie. It was a cool premise, and just very funny with that signature snappy direction from Bong Joo Ho. There's a ton of great gags and silly moral dilemmas and some good performances by Pattinson and Mark Ruffalo as a Trump-esque politician. Toni Collette was also horrifically awesome. 

The movie kinda lost me in the second half where there is too much going on and it tries to do too much. It's a long movie, and probably would have been better as two movies or something, because the second half feels rushed yet also drags on. It spent too much time being funny in the first half and tries to tell a whole other story in the second, complete with some half-hearted messaging about identity and happiness and whatever. 

So it's still a good watch, probably closer to Snow Piercer or Okja than Parasite with less convincing themes.