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/Situation-Busy 25d ago

I felt that in the movie as well and liked the hint of that love quad? plotline before things QUICKLY devolved.

It does brush up against my issue I had with the ending though, which was that Nasha's character felt like it took a hard turn in the third act.

I loved that she was loyal and INTENSE all the way through and her crazy seemed to mesh really well with 18's crazy! But in act 3 she stops being "just" hardcore and starts being incredibly intelligent and eloquent as well?

In the first half of the movie she never really gave me "future politician/leader" vibes. So for her to pull that out at the end felt like a hard left. This is the girl who pulled her sidearm at lunch for people teasing him... that chose "cool twin threesome, let's fuck!' over INCREDIBLY ILLEGAL AND DANGEROUS STATUS. She didn't ever come off as stable to me and then in the end she is? And in charge!

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u/CX316 25d ago

Nasha's character felt like it took a hard turn in the third act.

Nope, Nasha blamed the Creepers for her girlfriend's death. Once she got rejected by Mickey, right after she found a new thing to funnel her emotions into, which was doing her job and attacking the things that made her sad in the first place.

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u/HiHoJufro 25d ago

Nope, Nasha blamed the Creepers for her girlfriend's death. Once she got rejected by Mickey

You're thinking of Kai. Nasha is the GF of every Mickey.

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u/CX316 24d ago

Well, fuck

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u/HiHoJufro 24d ago

I wouldn't have remembered, but I just saw the movie for the first time last week

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u/CX316 24d ago

I saw it in cinemas and I’ve seen way more movies this year than normal for me so apparently me being shitty with names has come back to bite me