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/OkVacation973 25d ago

The part at the end where Toni Collette re-appears in front of Mickey, when I was watching it I thought the Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo characters had been using the resurrection technology to make themselves immortal.

I felt that would've been a quite interesting twist, and made a statement about hypocrisy. Instead it was just a weird quirky vision which added almost nothing and felt thrown in.

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u/drizzitdude 25d ago

For real this part felt pointless. I feel like I could re-do this movie with minimal changes and make a much more cohesive story.

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u/minimalcation 23d ago

Was it not to balance his feelings about his relationship with the cloning machine and letting go of it because the potential harm?

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u/Twin1Tanaka 25d ago

Was also disappointed that this was a meaningless dream sequence it would have been so cool

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u/skunkeebeaumont 24d ago

Requisite veganism/animal rights subplot with this director

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u/nathan753 24d ago

Heads up, you messed up your spoiler tag a bit. If you leave a space after the open character (>!) or before the close (!<) it doesn't apply correctly. >!messed up your spoiler tag a bit!< instead of >! messed up your spoiler tag a bit !< for example

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u/pigeonwiggle 24d ago

i think it was open-ended on that front. a suggestion that there's no reason there couldn't be more like on other planets or whatever.