Review by fundaquayman

I'll skip the plotline summary as you can get that just from seeing the trailer. As a fan of this film, it's interesting to see so many film critics comparing this film to PARASITE when the two films' stories and genre have nothing to do with each other except they're both directed by Bong Joon-Ho. I'm thinking maybe these critics have not seen Bong's earlier great films like MEMORIES OF MURDER, or HOST, and they have only watched PARASITE, SNOWPIERCER and OKJA on NETFLIX when they wrote their reviews after screening MICKEY 17 - fact is, Bong Joon-Ho has shown he is well-versed across multiple genres, and PARASITE's success isn't necessarily his endgame (personal opinion perhaps, MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003) remains his finest work in his 3 decades working as screewriter and director). It would be more relevant for PARASITE to be compared to AMERICAN BEAUTY, while MICKEY 17 as a Sci-Fi satire stands on its own as one of the best films released so far in 2025, and it would be a travesty if this film and Robert Pattinson's performance don't become favorites in next year's Golden Globes and Academy Awards. Given the current state of the world we live in, it is sad to see that the ridiculousness of fictional characters and events within the film are not that far off from what we have been seeing on the news in the first 10 weeks of 2025. Bong Joon-Ho again knocks it out of the park with MICKEY 17 and he makes this film easy to understand for even audiences who only watch Marvel-Disney commercial films. As much as this movie is a Sci-Fi action comedy, the only plot element that probably isn't believable in 2025 is that when corrupt politicians are caught red/orange-handed in the movie, they actually get punished by the law...

While MICKEY 17 can be compared more relevantly with earlier Sci-Fi films like MOON, BLADERUNNER, SILENT RUNNING, or maybe even SOLARIS, and TOTAL RECALL, those equally iconic films touch more heavily on what it means to live and question whether the world now and in the future can allow humanity to exist within us. MICKEY 17 makes a note on the existential questions, but focus more on the dangerous state our world is in right now in Q1 2025...