Mickey 17 (2025) Review

Mickey is an expendable and we are up to version 17 when things go a little bit wrong, his mission is to help work out who to colonise an ice planet.

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Now when we first see Mickey he is still on Earth and manged to get himself into a lot of debt alongside his best friend Timo. With the possibility of being killed by the loneshark over this he decides to enlist as an expendable in year 2054 he joins the spaceship crew which are heading to colonise the ice planet named Niflheim.

Timo manages to become to a shuttle pilot but Mickey had to settle for the very illegal process of becoming an expendable, which means he takes on lethal tasks which see him die but as that happens a new clone of him is formed with restored memories. It takes four years to get to the planet and in that time Mickey develops a romance with security agent Nasha.

We get to see the many Mickey’s over the 16 attempts to make discovers and when we reach number 17, he is sent to try and capture a native lifeform dubbed “Creepers” but falls and Timo believes he is dead, reports and just leaves him. This creates Mickey 18 as a clone, however 17 is saved by the Creepers and we then have two of them, which is not supposed to happen and deemed that any clone that becomes a multiple they all must be destroyed forever.

While this is happening with Mickey we have the very bizarre Kenneth Marshall a failed politician and has a sinister design for the new world, along with his controlling wife Ylfa who for whatever reason is obsessed with creating a new sauce, yes really.

I actually had quite expectations for this film and truly believe that it had a very interesting idea at its core, based on a novel named Mickey 7. Always good to have ideas about the future and what could possibly go very wrong trying to inhabit a new planet. This really does give a lot of different ideas and really goes in hard with the sci-fi and advances in technology.

However, it fell rather short for me that the werid factor within it was even a little bit too much for my unique and varied tastes in films of the past few years. Robert Pattinson was good enough in the leading role and we get two of him in a few scenes! However, Mark Ruffalo was just so strange, and his teeth were massively distracting. Toni Collette was very bizarre alongside him as well and the pair were just annoying (I know the characters weren’t supposed to be likeable but this was a whole next level of annoyance).