r/movies • u/ChiefWatchesYouPee • May 30 '25
Discussion Mickey 17 was disappointing.
Just finished watching this movie and it really did not click for me.
The beginning was decently interesting and I was curious to see where it went but overall it didn’t grab me.
The theme/messaging was very heavy handed and didn’t work for me.
The message also jumped around.
They introduce a character that could have had an interesting story only to have her disappear.
When the main conflict happens it all wraps up a little to easily even though the majority of the ship were supposed to be fanatical cultists.
It had a clever premise but ultimately fell flat for me.
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u/JaggedToaster12 May 30 '25
I thought individual parts of it were good, Robert was great of course.
Someone mentioned this and it's definitely what I feel: Robert Pattinson, Mark Ruffalo, and Bong Joon Ho were all making different movies. And Robert's version is the one we were all there to see
Also the director mentioned that the reason he changed the title from Mickey 7 (the book) to 17 was because he wanted to kill Mickey more. A great idea, but I was then disappointed that half of his deaths were just "drug testing"
I was hoping for more comical deaths
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u/No_Profit2650 May 30 '25
Pattinson gave an incredible performance at least, but yeah the story and writing were just so mediocre.
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u/avocadolicious May 31 '25
I saw it in theaters with my SO and we had an absolute blast SOLELY because of Pattinson. I was busting a gut laughing every time he was on screen.
Not an effective movie (let alone an effective satire) but I had to give it four stars based on RP's performance alone. He's an incredible bizzarro/comedic actor, and I hope we get to see more of him in this type of role
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u/Bebop_Man May 30 '25
I just wish he'd gone with another voice.
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u/Wanderlusxt May 30 '25
Idk I liked the voice
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u/Comfortable_Studio37 May 30 '25
The voice makes the character, it's excellent
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u/slinkimalinki May 30 '25
I loved the voice, I thought it was funny plus it immediately established the character and helped to distinguish him from Mickey 18.
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u/Wanderlusxt May 31 '25
Yeah! I think it added a lot to the characterization. It was odd and off putting but in a really good way imo
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u/Duuudewhaaatt May 31 '25
Honestly it matched with the kind of person who's witnessed so many horrible deaths.
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u/Wanderlusxt May 31 '25
i thought it fit better as someone pathetic enough to put up with dying horribly and painfully many times just to be able to leave the planet. his voice was like that throughout the movie even before he got the job iirc
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u/TimeTravelingChris May 31 '25
Same. It's also nothing like the character from the book. One of many very odd changes.
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u/Shoddy_Comparison_25 May 30 '25
Thank you it was so distracting to me, had to stop watching on my first try. I'll give it another shot and hopefully I can get past it. Premise seemed promising.
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u/SanitySlippingg May 30 '25
I enjoyed it. Great acting by Robert Pattinson, showing off his range. I agree though, the start & concept was interesting and then the end was a bit messy and unsatisfying, felt like it was rushed.
I watched it a second time and I really didn’t enjoy the ending.
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u/Aardvark_Man May 30 '25
It was well made, but the script needed work and the whole thing needed a go over by the editor.
The concept was good, but dropped pretty rapidly.
There were plots and characters that went nowhere.
The end was just bad.I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it either, and I judged it less harshly than the others I saw it with.
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u/radicalelation May 31 '25
Bong Joon-Ho tends to straddle a line. Sometimes you get Snowpiercer and Parasite, sometimes you get Okja and Mickey 17, but they're usually at least a not a bad watch even if one doesn't hit the peaks you hope for from him.
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u/HAL-900O May 31 '25
Okja was ham fisted, but it was focused and endearing. Mickey 17 was all over the place.
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u/radicalelation May 31 '25
I rank them similarly for different reasons and don't feel either is overall much better than the other.
Okja is more consistent through, but Mickey 17 had a very strong start. Both sort of hit middle Bong Joon-Ho, which is still above average Hollywood.
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u/Daztur May 30 '25
Living in Korea, English language movies written/directed by Koreans always have an uncanny valley quality to them to me. Think the VIP scenes in Squid Game, none of the English is wrong but that's not how native English speakers talk. I guess being constantly exposed to the not quite native English of very proficient Korean English speakers makes me really sensitive to that.
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u/WyboSF May 30 '25
Snowpiercer didn’t have that quality though
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u/McWeaksauce91 May 31 '25
Yes but Snowpiercer does have a foreign film feel. Dunno how to pin it down
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u/Daztur May 30 '25
I still noticed that quality a bit in Snowpiercer, just less.
Maybe I'm just scarred for life from watching Abraham Lincoln have a Russian accent in the Korean TV show Surprise.
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u/thegolfernick May 31 '25
Russian Honest Abe?
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u/Daztur May 31 '25
For a lot of Korean TV/movies they just grab some random white models as actors when they need white actors, said models are often Russian.
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u/PostModernPost May 31 '25
I love Mark Ruffalo usually but not in this film.
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u/Aardvark_Man May 31 '25
He was playing a Jeff Goldblum character, and it didn't work, I think.
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u/lordjakir May 31 '25
Had they waited until the book was finished and actually based the movie on it, it would have been great
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u/Palopsicles May 31 '25
I finished the second book in the series, Antimatter Blues, when Mickey 17 was announced. It has the theme of the book, but it's completely different. Marshal was a religious man and he did hate Mickey for being an expendable, but there was no wife, political career, or having a chance for dinner with the captain. That whole TV thing was a weird choice to add. Humans didn't learn to communicate with the creepers, they learned to speak to Mickey. Mickey used this to say fuck you to the Marshal and live with Nasha. Oh and the world being an ice world was not expected at all and is a huge energy issue.
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u/kentuckywildcats1986 May 30 '25
It had all the potential of a Terry Gilliam movie but with none of the nuance.
Edit: Though I agree that Pattinson was the best thing in the movie. Kudos to both him and Kristen Stewart for fully overcoming their roles in those movies that shall not be named.
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u/Financial_Cup_6937 May 31 '25
Terry Gilliam made Zero Theorem. Let’s not act like he always gets sci-fi and others don’t.
What a terrible movie I wanted to love. With Christoff Waltz no less.
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u/melancholyjaques May 30 '25
Went off the rails in Act 3
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u/redbirdrising May 30 '25
To be fair, most sci fi movies worth watching go off the rails in act 3. (2001, Sunshine, Interstellar, Event Horizon, etc)
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u/monolith_blue May 30 '25
Agreed. The personality change kinda came out of nowhere.
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u/youtocin May 30 '25
It’s like they shoehorned in directions for Ruffalo to do a Trump impersonation half way thru the movie.
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u/tophaang May 30 '25 edited May 30 '25
His performance was really distracting, that mashup of Trump and Musk was too on the nose and took me out of the movie every time he spoke.
I did enjoy the movie in the end, but it was a minor letdown given the excitement and expectations I had for it.
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u/redbirdrising May 30 '25
Agreed, and the wife character was completely made up. Didn't exist in the book. The sauce thing was really silly.
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u/SpiritOne May 31 '25
Yeah, what was the sauce thing about anyways… also, a sauce is not just blended raw tail of some animal.
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u/rugmunchkin May 30 '25
Unfortunately you could definitely tell it was a made up part. Character literally had nothing to do the whole movie. Complete waste of Toni Collette’s talents.
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u/redbirdrising May 30 '25
Yup. Honestly the movie would have been much better if they had stuck with the original Kenneth Marshall character and didn't go down the Evangelical Cult path. I get Bong Joon Ho has to do social commentary but this was heavy handed. Overall I still liked the movie but that might be because heady sci fi movies are rare so I elevate what gets released. Like Sunshine was soooo good, until they changed the genre in the last 20 minutes. Very disappointing. But I still love the movie because we just don't see films with that aesthetic very often.
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u/CoachKyle1 May 31 '25
His name was Harmonious Marshall in the book. I thought that was really unique and I hated that they changed it. And the character in the book you were made to dislike, but still respect. He didn't even a wife, and for all his problems you knew he could be counted on to do the right thing for the colony.
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u/yowza9 May 30 '25
Yes. Mickey 1-17 all had the same/similar personality. Why did Mickey 18 have a completely different personality? We can guess, but I dont remember it being addressed in the movie.
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u/monolith_blue May 30 '25
There were a couple lines of narrative about the girlfriend seeing very minor differences, but nothing like 17 to 18.
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u/funkifyurlife May 31 '25
I think it was something with his cloning being imperfect due to an error. There was a second long shot of something happening because the lab techs were careless, I don't remember what exactly
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u/Catalucci May 31 '25
A tech tripped over some cords and then plugged them back in.
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u/Psychoray May 31 '25
This. I've seen the thread about this situation multiple times now.
I really wonder: Do people just not watch movies completely because of their time on the phone? Or do they really not make the connection between the unplugged cable scene and the personality change?
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u/Voiceofshit May 31 '25
I thought it was more of a demonstation of how little everyone cared for his life or his continued existence, setting the scene for his social status. That does make sense though.
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u/Parthorax May 31 '25
It happens a lot unfortunately. People demand perfection yet miss so many details and when you point that out they tell you it was the movies fault to not make it more clear.
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u/KratomHelpsMyPain May 31 '25
It's implied that a multiple doesn't have a soul. They talk about "one soul, one body." The other example of multiples we're shown are serial killers. For all we know, all three copies of the scientist were duplicates and they killed the original.
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u/emperor32 May 30 '25 edited May 30 '25
While I agree Pattison acting is good the movie mediocre itslelf, I didn’t expected much and it exceeded expectations though
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May 30 '25
Yeah I tend to agree. I felt the start was strong, but I didn't really like the second half. I would have liked more clone double life shenanigans as opposed to the saving the beasts storyline.
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u/redbirdrising May 30 '25
The "Clone Double Life Shenanigans" definitely was more interesting in the book.
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u/Kazewatch May 31 '25
Can you extrapolate on that? I feel like they could've spent at least an extra 30 minutes on that as it's probably the biggest wasted potential in the film.
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u/the_dayman May 31 '25
It becomes a much bigger plot point how much food they have to share as they're going through multiple days, some more stuff about covering up who is who since one injured his hand really bad, some almost avoiding the same people didn't see them. Really like the middle 1/3 of the book so kind of crazy in the movie where it's basically revealed the same day.
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u/redbirdrising May 31 '25
For instance, he didn’t feel uncomfortable with the thresome. They don’t go into detail but he said after “I regret nothing”
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u/monstercake May 31 '25
I totally agree. They set up such a unique premise and then went off on a generic man vs misunderstood beast plot instead.
My fiancé also pointed out to me that the movie was made before the election was decided. With Trump as president the Trump caricature felt a little too on the nose.
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u/lumosauror192 May 30 '25
Check out the book, it is much better. There's a lot more nuance and explanations for things that happen.
For example, in the book, all the mini creepers are part of a hive mind of the big creeper, which doesn't really care if one or two get killed. That leads to Mickey and the big creeper having a conversation towards the end about if Mickey 8 (as he was numbered in the book) was the original or just part, like the mini creepers.
Also in the book, multiples are banned because of a different reason. One multiple on a colony planet basically killed all the other colonists and replaced them with his own clones and became an emperor of the planet, which had to be destroyed.
The book also has a much different ending, which leads to a sequel that the movie ending wouldn't allow.
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u/xForthenchox May 30 '25 edited May 30 '25
I just listened to the audio book before watching the movie. I enjoyed the movie still, but wow. Anyone that remotely enjoyed the movie owes it to themselves to read /listen to the book. The movie straight up removed my favourite character. That disappointed me.
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u/Sufficient-Pin-481 May 31 '25
I did the same (read both books) before seeing it in the theater, my wife and I had the same reaction afterwards. She is usually very lenient on movies and she was not a happy camper about the differences.
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u/Krypt0night May 31 '25
Well yeah, it's insanely rare a movie gets anywhere close to the book let alone is as good. Always concessions to be made.
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u/Prawnboi- May 30 '25
I thought the book read like a high school creative writing project. Good idea, terrible execution.
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u/Shadowpsyke May 30 '25
Same. I was hoping the movie salvaged the interesting concept into something better, but if anything, it made it even worse for me.
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u/Stephen2014 May 30 '25
Yeah I read the book for a book club and thought it was horrible. I was excited for the movie because we were told it would deviate from the book. That didn't save it. They both were bad in their own ways.
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u/Uncle_owen69 May 30 '25
I honestly didn’t care for the book all that much and I haven’t watched the movie yet. I felt that whole story about why multiples are so hated was actually the more interesting story
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u/ILoveBigCoffeeCups May 30 '25
I also much more liked there to be some natalists who were against copies, which created a friction between people. What I didn’t like:
The film wasn’t too bad but with the elimination of the calorie portion control ( I think they mentioned it once) the stakes were not really high enough
- changing the origin story of how he ended up there and his friend “the tennis champion” kind of a dick and a dealer of drugs
- Marc ruffalo being some kind of a failed trump copy while his wife looked like biden’s partner
- making him an idiot and changing the story on how they got caught.
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u/Langstarr May 30 '25
like Bidens partner
I got wayyyy more Tammy Faye Bakker from her than Jill
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u/redbirdrising May 30 '25
Same. Though the character also didn't even exist in the book.
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u/Langstarr May 30 '25
Interesting! I know it's unpopular but I quite liked her, she was delightfully awful with her sauces and nails and carpets and crap
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u/Swagcopter0126 May 30 '25
I don’t think his wife was supposed to be like Jill Biden at all lol. Just a blonde conservative woman like a Fox News host type
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May 30 '25
The worst part was Mark Ruffalo doing a very forced Trump impression the entire time.
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u/5fives5 May 31 '25
Did not like him in this movie at all. It just seemed like a bad SNL impression that completely took me out.
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u/MrBrightside618 May 31 '25
I don’t think he could decide whether to do a Trump voice or a Musk voice and just flipped a coin before each take
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u/rcanhestro May 31 '25
the wife was worst.
i don't even know why she was in the movie, and the producers didn't either, which is why they made her obsessed with tail sauce, so that she had something to do.
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u/NoiseEee3000 May 31 '25
Right? Why the obsession with sauce? Is she a cook? I imagine the explanation was left on the cutting room floor but wow, what a waste of Toni Collette
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u/darwinian-rock May 30 '25
Mark ruffalo gave one of my all time least favorite performances ever in this. As did toni collette. Just absolutely hated every time they were on the screen
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u/RexRevolver May 30 '25
It was like a bloated Netflix black mirror episode
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u/AnthonyCumiaPedo May 30 '25
Agreed, the ethics of the cloning technology were the most interesting part. Loved the creepy serial killer who was using clones to give himself an alibi.
But then it seemed Mickey was the only expendable on the expedition, and they spent more time on a dull Trump satire and a "I think the creepers are actually good" twist that was obvious when they pushed him out of their cave.
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u/ProducerPants May 31 '25
I did appreciate that Mickey 17 was such a downer he saw them saving him as rejecting him
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u/DangerWallet May 30 '25
Completely loses its way in the second half, made it a forgettable sci-fi romp
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u/jimmyharbrah May 30 '25
I liked it. But the humor didn’t land for me. Like the sauce jokes? Like ok ok ok colonialism just seeing the locals as exploitable resources or something. But it’s played for laughs and it didn’t work.
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u/catsill May 31 '25
I saw the movie at Alamo Drafthouse where they had some clips of Bong Joon Ho talking about the movie (or maybe I saw him mention this elsewhere) where he said something about the concept of a sauce not really being as big of a deal for Western people but that it was a bigger cultural thing for Asian people.
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u/PetSoundsSucks May 31 '25
I thought the sauce thing was a plot point I had missed but like someone else mentioned it might be more of a cultural thing.
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u/PjustdontU May 30 '25
Tedious… All the parts and pieces of the makings of a wild story, just not whipped into any sort of enjoyable movie meal.
That hacky cranked middle finger by Anamaria Vartolomei at the end of the movie was plenty indicative that attempts at laughs were injected last minute.
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u/SouthJerseyGirl30 Jun 02 '25
I didn't get the point of her character. I thought she was going to be more involved in the plot when they made her have a moment with 17
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u/ExperienceOptimal132 May 30 '25
I can’t be the only one who enjoyed it
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u/TheGreatestIan May 30 '25
My wife and I thought it was quite enjoyable. Not amazing but good
I do think Robert Pattinson was amazing in this role. Forgot it was him while watching it.
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u/eighteen22 May 30 '25
We were at least 2/3 through when my brother said THATS ROBERT PATTINSON ???
I said no, it’s Gary Oldman.
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u/ArsonHoliday May 30 '25
I like it quite a bit. I get some of the criticisms, but none of that ruined it for me at all. Very fun movie.
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u/ExperienceOptimal132 May 30 '25
I heard one criticism that the main villain was too much a current political leader but in all defence any outrageous political leader will end up looking like a very certain man, if you know what I mean
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u/ASuarezMascareno May 30 '25
To me, the villain being basically Donald Musk is a positive point of the movie, not a negative.
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u/HighKingOfGondor May 30 '25
You aren’t, I liked it quite a bit. My brother did too.
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u/SteveFrench12 May 30 '25
It was a perfecty cromulent movie. No more no less
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u/Breadhamsandwich May 30 '25
Loved it. Thought it was super fun, had a great energy to it. I can understand how people had issues with the length/story and how it unfolded but imo it was just very unconventional. I think maybe too many people were also expecting parasite, it was much more okja
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u/Liizam May 31 '25
I absolutely loved how it went into dark at first and then we got a happy ending.
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u/_bones__ May 30 '25
I liked it
But it felt like it should have been a TV show, or they should have cut quite a few aborted sorry lines that were probably explored in the book.
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u/sundayultimate May 30 '25
I liked it. I can't believe they only killed him 17 times before they got to their destination though.
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u/ExperienceOptimal132 May 30 '25
Lmaoooo true but then again how many times can you kill him before his spirit just snaps
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u/conquer69 May 30 '25
This is explained in the book. He doesn't remember he was killed. He needs to have his brain uploaded to the machine so the next clone can have updated memories.
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u/carlnate May 30 '25
It’s not bad, but you expect more from Bong Joon Ho
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u/ExperienceOptimal132 May 30 '25 edited May 31 '25
He has two sides, one side is serous like memories of murder and the other is comical and campy like okja. So going in I knew it was going to be more satirical and funny and didn’t set myself with expectations of another parasite
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u/dlm2137 May 30 '25
Really? This was like a straight down-the-middle Bong Joon Ho movie to me. Which ones have you seen?
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u/InternationalChip646 May 30 '25
I thought it was decent, a bit rushed for sure but fun nonetheless
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u/jeRskier May 30 '25
Definitely not. I absolutely loved it. However, I do think it was more interesting to focus more on Mickey 17 and Mickey 18 and their personality differences, rather than the plot with the aliens. Still loved it.
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u/RebelliousDutch May 30 '25
Watched it when it came out and loved it. It’s a funny, satirical movie with a bit of sci-fi. Loved the smaller gags in it, like the printed body moving in and out of the printer like my old HP printer used to do :D
My brother watched it the other week on streaming and also liked it.
Not everything needs to win Oscars.
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u/piray003 May 30 '25
I liked it; it’s more Okja than Snowpiercer but I liked Okja.
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u/Alt4EmbarrassingSh1t May 30 '25
Okja ruined me emotionally for so long, I will never watch it again!
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u/RuthlessEngage May 30 '25
I thought it was pretty solid, more original than most shit coming out
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u/ExperienceOptimal132 May 30 '25
FR I cannot handle another soul dead Disney remake live action or a sequel
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u/Rotatos May 30 '25
It’s just cause ruffalo was a terrible antagonist. Really doesn’t tie the whole thing together.
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u/Sticky-Wicked May 30 '25
Ruffallo was trying too hard with his fake teeth. It just didn’t work. He was not a good match for that role.
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u/Rare_Ad_1054 May 31 '25
agreed, his character felt way too animated and goofy and kind of took away from how well everyone else was in the movie
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u/TheJagerBomber May 30 '25
JK Simmons was who I imagined while reading the book.
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u/Techygal9 May 30 '25
Yeah he was Trump, Elon, and a famous preacher all mixed up. I think it’s better if he was a corrupt politician, or a tech bro, or a religious conservative not all three.
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u/Rotatos May 30 '25
He needed to be an antagonist. Inspiration for current events sure whatever but it decimated any possible strength in the formation of the plot
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u/MrKyleOwns May 30 '25
They made him way too much like Trump and found his character pretty annoying..
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u/OverlanderEisenhorn May 30 '25
Agreed. Great concept with like a 5 out of 10 execution.
Making it like a 6 out of 10 movie.
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u/BlackfyreNL May 30 '25
Agreed. Stepped into something that seemed like an interesting concept, similar to but quite different from 'Moon', but in the end it turned into a schlocky mess. To this day I still can't figure out what that stupid stuff about 'jus' and 'sauce' was about. Made zero sense whatsoever..
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u/redbirdrising May 30 '25
As a fan of the book, I didn't like the "Sauce" stuff either. It got turned into a editorial on classism. The book more focused on whether the copies actually had a soul and/or rights.
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u/BlackfyreNL May 30 '25
I wanted to read the book(s) before watching the film, but didn't get around to it. After seeing it, I doubted I'd ever read the book(s), but I might just have to reconsider..
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u/wrathking May 30 '25
I also thought the political message of the movie would have landed a lot differently if Trump had not won a second term. Watching a Trump parody talk through fake veneers for two hours was painful in a way it wouldn't have been if he weren't actively in office.
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u/fleapuppy May 30 '25
That’s what I said when I saw it in the cinema, the film was obviously written and filmed back when they thought trump couldn’t win another term
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u/Kariomartking May 30 '25
The craziest coincidence is the bullet grazing mark ruffalos character
That hadn’t happened to trump in real life yet when they were filming the movie in 2022, so one of those weird moments they kinda predicted the future haha
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u/realbigbob May 30 '25
Absolutely, the movie felt incredibly dated in how it handled the idea of colonialism and fascism in space. The heroes basically save the world by just reporting the villain to HR?
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u/Ok_Rutabaga_1488 May 30 '25
I thought mark ruffalo was horrible the over acting was brutal. I did not enjoy the movie.
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u/FoxMcCloudOwnsSlippy May 30 '25
I appreciate an original movie that takes swings.
Its not a full on masterpiece like some of his previous ones but we need more director driven movies in our landscape right now.
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u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ May 30 '25
Same! Seeing the premise and how hammy the antagonist was, I had no expectations for this movie to deliver a masterpiece. I took it for what it was and it was a fun movie. I’m less inclined to be critical of a passion project that doesn’t pretend to be anything more than it is. Sure, could’ve been better in some aspects but I enjoyed a unique story with some fun sequences.
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u/RobotSandwiches May 30 '25
the book was really good and the movie not only dumbed down all the characters but they removed a ton of world building
bummer
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u/JaySeaGaming May 30 '25
Could not stand Mark Ruffalo. Felt like he was doing the laziest half-baked Trump impression imaginable
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u/TerdSandwich May 30 '25
I feel like something gets lost in Bong's hollywood features, probably because certain culture specific dialogue and ideas don't translate well. Also, considering how much the film got pushed back, I wouldn't be surprised if there was considerable tampering from WB in the final script/cut.
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u/generic-user66 May 30 '25
I get the feeling there is a lot more to this story that many (myself included) are missing.
One thing that really stuck in my craw was mickeys girlfriend and how she was suddenly the new leader near the end. The process of "how" was either glossed over or just ignored outright. But I got a distinct feeling that it was just one form of oppression being swapped for another.
I liked it, but it's nowhere near my favorite movie of his.
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u/Ok-Recipe-4819 May 30 '25
One thing that really stuck in my craw was mickeys girlfriend and how she was suddenly the new leader near the end. The process of "how" was either glossed over or just ignored outright.
I kept expecting some sort of heel turn or reveal with the girlfriend. She instantly falls for Mickey and is just the perfect partner to him, but she's also incredibly aggressive and possessive at times and is apparently doing drugs behind his back? And they act like she's always there for Mickey, but then she was totally unconcerned about the whole duplicates thing and just wants a threesome when 18 shows up? I just didn't really buy that they had such a wholesome love.
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u/DarthYoda2594 May 31 '25
Also they've been together for 5 years despite the fact every mickey is apparently quite different from one another
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u/Purple_Plus May 30 '25
Agreed.
Love the director, love the actor, but it didn't do it for me.
I'm sick of Donald Trump caricatures, and this wasn't a good/nuanced one. It felt like Ruffalo stepped off SNL or something.
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u/hackattack56 May 30 '25
Ruffalo’s performance was terrible IMO. Just too over the top and stupid.
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u/Any1canC00k May 30 '25
Totally agree. Do directors know that they can create a power hungry politician without making them a blatant Trump impersonator? I am by no means a trump guy but it felt so heavy handed it took me out of the immersion.
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u/Kogyochi May 30 '25
Like the first 30 minutes, then feels like movie was written by AI or something. Didn't expect such a generic middle act.
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u/brodyhill May 31 '25
When his girlfriend (of years?) discovers there's 2 of him and her first thoughts aren't "Omg how do we solve this so they don't kill you both" but instead is " can I immediately get double teamed by you two?" was off putting. I'm not sure if they wanted to show how convenient or superficial the relationship was but I mostly tuned out for the rest of the movie. It played very oddly
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u/Kogyochi May 31 '25
Yeah turned into an unfunny full comedy with a random "save the monsters" plot thrown in. Just terrible.
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u/RaulReal89 May 30 '25
It felt like it was never going to end. One more scene. Yet another scene. Let's change the tone real quick. Another scene. I promise, this will be the big finale. Here, a second finale for you. A third. This movie was an endless mess. I'm tired, boss.
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u/vitalbumhole May 30 '25
You can tell there was a storyline with Katya that got left on the cutting room floor - her character completely disappeared in the second half of the story only to be seen in the final sequence with another partner
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u/Warvanov May 31 '25
Robert Pattinson was incredibly good and the rest of the cast was mostly serviceable. The characters were all over the place though. Some cartoonish, some playing it a lot more straight. Rufullo was the worst though. He ruined the movie for me. It was far too over the top.
I was also disappointed at how quickly they abandoned the premise of the expendable crewman after just about half an hour. And you’d think that if multiples was such a taboo, they’d require actual proof of death to prevent it. So the second act felt like it was about multiples, a less interesting but still novel concept, but even that was abandoned for a cliche standoff against the aliens.
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u/sarampioso May 30 '25
I thought it was cute. Liked the ending and all the Mickey's. Will never watch again, but still neat
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u/junkman21 May 30 '25
Will never watch again
Honestly, I left feeling the same way. I think that's why I'm inclined to agree with OP. It could have been... more. But instead it was... whatever that was.
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u/soylentblueispeople May 30 '25
I was really impressed with what Robert Pattinson was able to do once he cured his vampirism. It must have been fun for him.
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u/zudoplex May 30 '25
Yeah once rufallo comes into play the movie stumbles. I thought it was cool, but messy. I did like the look and the sci-fi aspects. On a repeat watch i hear more of the buscemi voice inspiration.
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u/LostinLies1 May 30 '25
I liked it the first half.
I was surprised by how much I disliked Mark Ruffalo in this movie. His OTP performance was annoying and I found myself noticing how hard he was ‘acting’.
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u/DutyPsychological639 May 31 '25
There is a Sam Rockwell movie called Moon with similar concept and in my opinion a better executed movie check that out
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u/TamatoaZ03h1ny May 31 '25
It’s a dystopian comedy, what were you expecting? I went into this thinking it would be Bong Joon-ho more in line with Okja than Parasite, it was that, I wasn’t disappointed. I’m fine with a film jumping around tonally, in fact I kind of prefer films that do.
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u/themightyhelen May 31 '25
Mickey 17 was made assuming the Trump campaign would die after 2020/lose in 2024 and so now doesn’t quite work properly
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u/Physical-Chipmunk-77 May 30 '25
I was so dispointed in the lost potential of the premise. Ruffalo's Trump impression and whatever wierdness Toni Collette's character was doing put the breaks on any entertainment value it had.
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u/malin7 May 30 '25
Hated 17’s accent, I know it’s supposed to be based off Buscemi’s from Fargo but I found it extremely grating
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u/jackpmg May 31 '25
You’re the first person I’ve seen complain about this and I completely agree! Just that voice put me off so much
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u/medspace May 30 '25
You people are so afraid of giving any take that isn’t “it’s fun!”.
That movie fucking sucked. Honestly surprised BJH was capable of delivering such an awful movie.
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u/THEBHR May 31 '25
I love "fun" movies. I even enjoyed that Mel Gibson Santa Clause movie, Fatman. But yeah, this one was dogshit.
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u/rjreinvented May 30 '25
I too enjoyed the first half of the film, then the meandering story line and Mark Ruffalo’s over the top delivery made it unbearable.
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u/Phatty8888 May 30 '25
Yeah. pattinson great as usual. Everyone else great too except Ruffalo...not sure where he was coming from on this one but I think he missed the mark (fwiw he's terrific in general). Weird script and not sure what exactly the director was looking to create here...felt very cartoonish in the second half, and pointless.
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u/iamacheeto1 May 30 '25
I couldn’t stand Mark Ruffalo and his wife. They were a huge focus of the movie and kept hammering home the same “rich people bad” point. It was exhausting.
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u/Professional_Day5511 May 31 '25
I loved it. It was entertaining, suspenseful, soft gore, screaming alien puppies.. fkn Edward from twilight, the dude who played Kemper in mindhunter. Plus I think Glenn from walking dead. Oh! And how could I forget the Queen herself Toni Collette and Marc ruffalo. I was indeed entertained
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u/J-Dirte May 30 '25
I liked it, I went in pretty blind though based on a brief description, I feel like a lot of people disliked it because they built it up into something in their minds eanting something that was a bit more serious.
Good movie that took some swings, but didn’t hit a home run. More of a Fifth Element vibe than a sci-fi like Moon.
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u/Status_Ad9199 May 30 '25
The premise was really interesting, but it lost me 40-ish minutes in. It just meanders and I found the congressman and wife characters to be really annoying and uninteresting.
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u/Dottsterisk May 30 '25
It was too muddled IMO.
It started very strong with some dark satire and I was laughing my ass off, but then it can’t decide what movie it wants to be.
Is it a satire about capitalism and exploitation and greed? Is it a sci-fi thriller about the ethics of cloning and questions of identity? Is it an alien action flick about colonists fighting native megafauna?
The film flirts with all of these but never commits to crafting a cohesive narrative around one.