“Mickey 17” (2025) ~ 2 Clones Should Not Exist Together!

By Mango Sorbet - October 21, 2024

In “Mickey 17”, the 17^th iteration of “Mickey” gets sent on a dangerous mission. If successful and the “Mickey” returns, that’s good. If unsuccessful … so what! Just clone another “Mickey”.

The film has an expected release date of January 31, 2025, in the USA. (It will be released in South Korea on January 28, 2025.)

In “Mickey 17”, Robert Pattinson plays “Mickey”, an astronaut who is part of an experiment that “technically” makes him immortal. He is sent out on missions and if he dies during the mission, a clone of him gets generated, so he can carry on and complete the mission. At this point, he has been cloned 17 times. But is there a fluke with this experiment? Mickey wakes up only to find that one of the clones did not die! How can that Mickey exist when a new Mickey was generated? That’s not what they told him when he signed up!

What a monumental screw-up!! If I were Mickey the astronaut, I’d ask if I could go all the way back to the first version of me which was the real me, and not the cloned me. Then I’d tell them to take their experiment and shove it!

That’s how I would write the storyline, but I’m not the scriptwriter. LOL. You’ll have to watch the movie to see how this plays out. This film was inspired by Edward Ashton’s novel “Mickey 7”.

CAST: Robert Pattinson, Mark Ruffalo
Director: Bong Joon Ho (“Parasite” (2019), first foreign language film to win Best Picture. Academy Awards)
GENRE: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy or Supernatural, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
IMDb Rating: (no rating) out of 10 stars
NOTE Per IMDb: “Rated R for violent content, language throughout, sexual content and drug material.”