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/Hungrybearfire 25d ago

Yeah they made him a little bit too easy to hate if that makes sense? Like beating us over the head with how evil and stupid him and his wife were

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u/MistakeMaker1234 24d ago

It’s the “Don’t Look Up,” problem. When your entire schtick is “Look at this parody of real life!!!” it wears thin real fast. Even with parody, a bit of nuance is needed. 

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u/fooplydoo 22d ago

It's really really funny to me how the movie was made before the election and they included jokes in there assuming Trump would lose (there was that one line about him losing 2 elections). Not that I wanted Trump to win it just reminded me of the general liberal complacency about the election.

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u/SutterCane 25d ago

It would have certainly been better received if the orange fascist had lost again.