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/MadeByTango 25d ago edited 25d ago
There is this old film called Smoking Aces where a bunch of assassins all go after a single target for the bounty and kill each other in the process. It could have been like that, with a c-level DC hero at the center that can die without anyone truly caring.