“Mickey 17” is a dystopian science-fiction film by writer-director Bong Joon-Ho, the Oscar best picture director and original screenplay winner for “Parasite” (2019). In “Mickey 17,” Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) enlists as an astronaut, a so-called expendable, on a mission to set up a colony on Niflheim, an ice-choked planet. Expendables have more lives than cats. They are brought back to life through a process of cloning. Mickey is up to at least 17 versions of himself, hence, the film’s title. Paul Willistein of Lehigh Valley Press reviews the Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy Animation Film.
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