Robert Pattinson is reborn.
In the early 2050s, mankind has figured out how to clone bodies and carry over a single consciousness.
Count how many times people refer to Mickey as meat.
Robert Pattinson in ‘Mickey 17.‘Warner Bros Pictures.
Add in Mickeys own use of the term to describe himself, and that number doubles.
His 2013 filmSnowpiercerwas another tale of haves and have-nots taken to fantastic, violent, and thrilling extremes.
Tilda Swinton said she based thatearlier works matronly ministerpartially on Margaret Thatcher.
Feel free to guess who he might be loosely based upon.
Hes got the cacophony right, but its completely in the wrong key with the film as a whole.
Luckily, Pattinson manages to keep things buoyant without diluting the late-capitalism metaphors or the melancholy existentialism.
Hes also why the second half ofMickey 17works twice as strong as the first.
In space, no one can hear you scream, but everybody candefinitelyhear you whine.
His Mickey is the ultimate beaten-down beta.
Then we get to meet his alpha counterpart.
Thats not just a filmmaking trick.
Thats a flexing of talent.
Bong is a consummate cinematic craftsman, virtually incapable of creating a dull frame.
Pattinson cuts through all of it, one hangdog expression and mouth-breather exclamation at a time.
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