Movie · 2025 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Adventure · 2h 17m · R · English
Curator score: 5.1/10 (2.5M ratings)
He's dying to save mankind.
Overview
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
Ratings
Curator score: 5.1/10
IMDb: 6.7/10
Letterboxd: 3.55/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 78%
Metacritic: 72
TMDB: 6.8/10
Director
Bong Joon Ho
Production
Plan B Entertainment, Offscreen, Kate Street Picture Company, Domain Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast
Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Anamaria Vartolomei, Daniel Henshall, Patsy Ferran, Steve Park, Tim Key, Holliday Grainger, Michael Monroe, Cameron Britton, Edward Davis, Ian Hanmore, Lloyd Hutchinson, Christian Patterson, Samuel Blenkin, Sabet Choudhury, Rose Shalloo
Where to watch
Max
Curator Review
Verdict
A sharp, often funny sci-fi satire with a bleak workplace premise, body-identity absurdity, and Bong Joon Ho’s knack for mixing crowd-pleasing spectacle with political bite. It’s messy and broad by design, but the combination of high-concept cloning, class commentary, and oddball romance makes it a strong watch for viewers who like their blockbusters weird and pointed.
Best for
fans of satirical science fiction
viewers who enjoy dark comedy with social critique
people drawn to identity-and-cloning stories
audiences who like big studio movies with auteur fingerprints
fans of offbeat, slightly grotesque humor
Skip if
you want a tightly restrained tone
you dislike broad satire or overt political allegory
you prefer straightforward action over concept-driven storytelling
you’re not in the mood for body-horror-adjacent discomfort
you want a purely serious sci-fi drama
Overview
Mickey 17 is built on a deliciously nasty idea: a disposable worker whose job is to die repeatedly for a company that treats human life as inventory. That premise gives Bong Joon Ho room to do what he does best, turning systems of exploitation into something funny, ugly, and emotionally legible at the same time. The film leans into repetition, absurd bureaucracy, and the horror of replaceability, but it keeps finding new angles on what it means to be a person when your body is treated like a product.
Worth noting
The result is less sleek than some viewers may expect, but that roughness is part of the appeal. It’s a blockbuster that wants to be satirical, romantic, and politically enraged all at once, and it mostly gets away with it because the movie is so committed to its own strange logic. Robert Pattinson’s performance helps enormously, giving the film a jittery, vulnerable center even when the surrounding material gets loud or cartoonish.
Bottom line
If you like science fiction that uses its premise to talk about labor, identity, and power, this is an easy recommendation. If you want your genre movies neat, cool, and emotionally detached, this may feel overstuffed. But for viewers open to a messy, provocative, very modern kind of studio sci-fi, it’s one of the more distinctive big releases in recent memory.
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