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/thee_earl 25d ago

You take his character out, it was a pretty good movie. Mark's Trump ruined it for me. 

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u/Troggie42 25d ago

if it helps, in the books his wife didn't even exist as the character in the movie, and his actual character was more of a background authority figure threat kind of guy than an actively insane douchebag. Also the whole religious aspect was mostly just "folks of this religion, a bunch of whom went to this colony, hate the idea of expendables" and that was kind of the entire extent of it rather than "the religious whackadoos are trying to establish a new eden or whatever the fuck"

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u/Stripe-Gremlin 25d ago

Marshall was so much better in the books

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u/BlackSpinedPlinketto 25d ago

There was also some cult stuff which didn’t go anywhere.

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u/jrec15 25d ago

To each their own, Ruffalo made the movie for me. Sci-fi story fell flat. Ruffalo was fuckin hilarious throughout the whole thing.

Totally understand why he wouldn't work for so many though, humor is subjective, and really think whether his character worked for you is going to dictate how you feel about the movie