Mickey 17 thoughts

It has been a while since I've written anything about the movies I've seen recently and that is in part cos I'm really bad at getting around to writing anything, but also because there hasn't been much on in the cinema that I've wanted to see. Mickey 17 is one film I was quite keen to see though and overall I enjoyed it. The basic premise is that there is this guy (Mickey) who has unfortunately got into debt to a very psychotic loan shark. So he decides his only way out is by leaving the planet on a ship heading to build a colony on some far flung planet. Except the only role he can get is as an Expendable - he gets to do all the dangerous jobs and if he dies, well that isn't a problem, they can just print out a new clone of him to take over. Hence the title of the movie which focuses on the 17th version of him. The acting is superb; Patterson plays each clone slightly differently as it appears the memory restoration isn't perfect. Ruffalo does an excellent job as the leader of the expedition - a power hungry right wing ultraconservative politican who sees the colony as the only way he's going to gain any kind of power as the Americans in this universe are smart enough not to vote for someone like that. Apparently it is based on a book, so I might give that a go at some point too.