The film community was bewildered.
Bong’s Best Picture follow-up, a January release?
What was Warner Bros. thinking?
I don’t know if I buy that.
AsMickey 17’s story progresses, its web of interests grows.
Seventeen returns to the ship to discover he’s been reprinted, resulting in the dreaded Multiples.
If the authorities find out, he and 18 will both be killed and Mickey’s data permanently deleted.
The Creepers' role in the movie is what recallsOkjamost directly.
It’s this more comedic of his performances that leaves the biggest impression.
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Mickey 18 is strikingly different: confident, self-assured, quick to anger, and comfortable with violence.
Bong has crafted a large-scale genre film that, for all its oddness, goes down pretty easy.
Philosophical conundrums are neatly packaged and left that way.
The tone modulates, but it lacks the sharp, gut-punch shifts that characterize much of his previous work.
