Bong Joon-ho's long awaited follow-up to the history making Parasite. An unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer whodemands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
The Garden Cinema View:
It’s been six years since Bong Joon-ho altered the cinematic landscape with his all-conquering Parasite. His return is a seven-figure budgeted, epic sci-fi-mind-bender. Like his previous Hollywood work, Snowpiercer and Okja, Mickey 17 is, at heart, and anti-capitalist satire which hinges on a high concept central idea (work is literally killing you). As with those earlier films, there’s a sense that Bong doesn’t quite know where to take his narrative after the main point is made. Better then to enjoy the absurdity of his broad caricatures, cute/gross creature designs, and oddities of world building. A noble endeavour in a difficult political landscape, if not quite reaching the heights of Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi satires Robocop and Starship Troopers.
