2025 · sci-fi · comedy
Mickey 17
Directed by Bong Joon Ho2h 17m2025
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
Our read: Mickey 17 (2025) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured sci-fi / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- inventive
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“You want Bong Joon Ho's darkly funny clone survival tale on an ice planet.”
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