The new film from the Korean writer/director (Bong Joon Ho) of the breakthrough film "Parasite", including winning best film Oscar. I am not a great lover of sci-fi and fantasy films which genre this film is firmly based in but do enjoy Korean cinema with their different takes on events. Probably best described as a wacky satire, Robert Pattinson plays the luckless Mickey who signs on for a future space mission to a new planet four years travel away. The only problem is that he has volunteered as an "expendable" which means he is automatically used for anything risky or dangerous. Due to a new process of "reprinting", a new replacement copy of Mickey can be made every time he dies, hence his being No. 17 at the start of the film (his back story told in flashback over the first third of the film shows how he got to 17). A mistake in "reprinting" No. 18 ahead of schedule leads to the quandary of which copy should survive. Told against a backdrop of the spaceship being commanded by a failed US senator determined to establish a new world community with his messianic wife and himself ruling (truly manic performances from Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette) plus finding the target planet is an icy wasteland inhabited by "Creepers", I must admit by the final third I had given up and was just enjoying the whole farce of it all. Ironically the film’s release in 2025 against recent developments under Trump and Musk in the USA around Greenland and Canada and settlements on Mars, have probably made certain of the themes in the film more relevant than anybody can have realised when it was being made (a bit like “Casablanca” released in the 1940s when the Allies were invading North Africa)!

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Film Reviews 2025	04/01/25 15:25:00	Susan Kelly
We Live in Time	04/01/25 15:26:00	Susan Kelly
Re:We Live in Time	05/01/25 21:28:00	Sara Nathan
Flow	05/01/25 21:47:00	Sara Nathan
The Substance	06/01/25 21:45:00	Sara Nathan
Seed of the sacred fig (Farsi and subtitles)	08/01/25 00:03:00	Sara Nathan
Re:Seed of the sacred fig (Farsi and subtitles)	26/02/25 21:47:00	Joe Conneely
Re:Re:Seed of the sacred fig (Farsi and subtitles)	03/03/25 17:19:00	Chris Hurley
A Real Pain	11/01/25 15:51:00	Susan Kelly
Re:A Real Pain	11/01/25 23:06:00	Sara Nathan
Nickel Boys	12/01/25 16:46:00	Susan Kelly
Re:Nickel Boys	16/01/25 21:53:00	Sara Nathan
Heretic	16/01/25 21:47:00	Sara Nathan
Love Lies Bleeding	18/01/25 22:19:00	Sara Nathan
A Complete Unknown	19/01/25 14:36:00	Susan Kelly
Re:A Complete Unknown	19/01/25 21:56:00	Joe Conneely
Re:Re:A Complete Unknown	25/01/25 06:49:00	Alastair Banton
Re:Re:Re:A Complete Unknown	25/01/25 07:12:00	Alastair Banton
Babygirl	26/01/25 12:24:00	Joe Conneely
Re:A Complete Unknown (saw last year)	01/02/25 16:27:00	Sara Nathan
The Brutalist	26/01/25 17:50:00	Susan Kelly
Re:The Brutalist	02/02/25 09:25:00	Norman Redfern
Inside Out 2	01/02/25 16:26:00	Sara Nathan
Re:Film Reviews 2025	01/02/25 16:32:00	Sara Nathan
Emilia Perez (again!) forgot to change the header	04/02/25 21:21:00	Sara Nathan
Hard Truths	02/02/25 14:23:00	Susan Kelly
Vermiglio	04/02/25 20:06:00	Susan Kelly
Wild Robot	04/02/25 21:27:00	Sara Nathan
Becoming Led Zeppelin	07/02/25 22:34:00	Joe Conneely
September 5th	08/02/25 15:02:00	Susan Kelly
The Last Showgirl	11/02/25 21:48:00	Joe Conneely
Bridget Jones: mad about the boy	15/02/25 23:38:00	Sara Nathan
Re:Bridget Jones: mad about the boy	16/02/25 16:28:00	Susan Kelly
BAFTAS	16/02/25 23:09:00	Sara Nathan
Re:BAFTAS	18/02/25 14:25:00	Alastair Banton
I'm Still Here	04/03/25 17:09:00	Susan Kelly
Cottontail	08/03/25 14:23:00	Susan Kelly
Mickey 17	08/03/25 16:46:00	Joe Conneely
Re:Mickey 17	09/03/25 16:50:00	Susan Kelly

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