Mickey 17

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Mickey 17, 2025 science fiction movie directed by Bong Joon Ho and staring Robert Pattinson as a hapless space colonist who has agreed to be killed and reprinted over and over again as a way to escape Earth. I'm always excited to see a movie try to do what I might call "real science fiction" and there were some interesting elements and moments but I didn't really feel like it all hung together. Maybe if it had tried to do a little less? I was more interested in the sfnal or personal character story than in the political satire parts. I mean, I was interested in seeing a movie do a multiple-bodies story, and I'm interested in first-contact stories, but I didn't end up feeling like it said anything particularly interesting about either, alas.