starring Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo
directed by Bong Joon-ho
137 minutes
Mickey (Robert Pattinson) and Timo (Steven Yeun) flee Earth aboard a spaceship headed for the distant planet of Niflheim. The spaceship is run by former congressman Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo) and his wife Ylfa (Toni Collette). Timo gets someone to hook him up with a halfway decent job but Mickey winds up volunteering to be an "expendable" because he is desperate to get away from the loan shark to whom he and Timo owe money.
Mickey's body and memories are copied so that if he dies a new copy of him can be printed out. He is up to Mickey 17 when the movie begins. Mickey 17 looks to be toast and Mickey 18 is printed out and put to work. Mickey 17 unexpectedly returns creating a problem for himself and his girlfriend Nasha (Naomi Ackie).
Things get more complicated when a couple natives of Niflheim, creatures which the humans call creepers, are accidentally brought aboard in a piece of rock. One of the creepers is killed and the other is captured and handed over to the scientists aboard the spaceship.
The queen of the creepers wants her child back and Mickey 17 feels obligated to help her considering that she is the one who helped him get back to his ship. Marshall and Ylfa feel otherwise and use their muscle to try and strongarm the crew of the spaceship into committing genocide or something approximating it.
Thoughts
In some ways this movie does not feel very original. I feel as though I have seen other films which seem to revolve around a rich and powerful man trying to kill an alien species for financial gain. It wasn't done badly in this movie, I'm just saying.
I thought all the actors did a good job in this movie although the characters of Nasha and Timo only seemed to exist in relation to Mickey for most of the movie. Nasha was the badass girlfriend and Timo was the slimy friend whom Mickey should have gotten away from years ago.
I thought this movie was very enjoyable. There are some holes in the plot but nothing that was too much for me to overlook. Mainly I am talking about a couple plot points that came up and then were forgotten about when something bigger came along.
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