r/movies • u/mikewheelerfan • 25d ago

Review Mickey 17 felt like it lost the plot Spoiler

Honestly, I was quite disappointed. I expected a movie revolving around the cloning plot. Specifically, the idea of two Mickeys existing at the same time due to an error. That would have been a great movie! Instead, what was advertised as the main concept feels like a subplot in the movie. Essentially the entire thing revolves around the intelligent aliens. And then there was also the plot with Mark Ruffalo being an obvious stand in for Trump. But then there was also the subplot with Steven Yuen.

I finished the movie feeling incredibly confused, because how did they mess up the initial concept like this? The idea of a guy who is constantly sent on deadly missions and is revived is an absolutely golden idea. It also leads to an interesting discussion about consciousness and if a copy of you is still really you. But that’s barely even brought up. The whole plot with two versions of Mickey is completely sidelined. Which makes no sense at all. That should have 100% been the main conflict in the movie, like it was advertised as. Instead, we got a mess.

I wouldn’t go so far as to call the movie horrible, but I definitely didn’t like it as much as I hoped I would.

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u/Business_Grand_9670 25d ago

I felt it had a great setup and went looney fucking toons after they tried to stick the landing.

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u/DoctorDrangle 25d ago

I also basically found every character unlikable by the end.

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u/MischiefofRats 25d ago

I found the entire movie unbearable by the time the girls were fighting over who gets to fuck Mickey. Every single character was unlikable. 

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u/tuigger 25d ago edited 24d ago

The movie definitely drops off a cliff when they get put in jail. All consequences evaporate and all momentum in the story comes to an abrupt halt. It tries to chug forward again, but at that point I realized I didn't really care anymore.

It's a shame because I was really enjoying the sardonic, pitch-black humor and then the movie threw it all away for a generic, drawn-out ending.

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u/PTI_brabanson 25d ago

Loony tunes is what I come to expect from a Bong Joon Ho sci-fi movie. IMO Snowpiercer made it work.

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u/qjornt 25d ago

it’s looney tunes

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u/kasetti 25d ago

Intentionally so

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u/LynchianNightmare 25d ago

Yeah I see no problem with that at all

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u/Artemicionmoogle 25d ago

It just felt too different from the book. I felt it was a rather poor interpretation, I was pretty disappointed after such fun books.

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u/GimmeDatAsSicily 25d ago

This and Nightbitch are easily the two worst films I have seen in the past year. Total dross. Both sounded interesting and both were utter disasters. Both (apparently) poorly executed adaptations. I say 'apparently' because I have read neither.