Mickey 17 review: ‘dark satire meets bonkers science fiction’ - The Jewish Chronicle

If escape from our real world existence is what you most want from science fiction movies then be warned. This one from Korean director extraordinaire Bong Joon Ho has plenty to remind you of

Earth even though it is set mostly on an intergalactic ship and the frozen planet to which it is transporting a colony of humans.

So desperate is failed entrepreneur Mickey Barnes to leave our planet and thus escape chainsaw-wielding lone sharks, he jumps the queue of fellow do-or-die Earth-leavers by signing up as the community’s one and only “expendable”, a disposable clone worker.

“You read through the paperwork?” asks a functionary. “Yeah,” says Robert Pattinson’s dozy Mickey, who has read neither the large nor the small print. He then signs the contract and dutifully dies thereby allowing his second iteration to be 3D printed into life with memory intact.

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