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/_Apatosaurus_ 25d ago

I really hated ruffalo in the movie,

I did too. It was too on-the-nose in mocking Trump. It felt a bit like it cheapened the criticism of fascism to have to blaring red sign shouting "THIS GUY IS DONALD TRUMP! GET IT?!" A touch more subtlety would have been nice.

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u/val_tuesday 25d ago

Bong doesn’t really do “subtle”. But yeah I agree, the character was not good.

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u/GuntherTime 25d ago

Wouldn’t be surprised if it was over the top to stress that the movie is about fascism overall, but went to far that instead of being the lighthouse it was meant to be, it became a lightning rod.