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Bong Joon-ho was delighted by a congratulatory letter he received from Martin Scorsese after his 2019 Korean-language film Parasite triumphed at the Oscars. At a press conference, Bong revealed that Scorsese had said he and other directors were keenly awaiting his next movie. "You've done well. Now rest. But don't rest for too long."
Here at last, six years later, is Bong's next film, financed on a different scale. Parasite was made on a budget of $11.4m and took $258m at the box office worldwide. Mickey 17 is ten times the punt, with a $118m budget, lavished by Warner Bros.
Pattinson is endearing as passive, dopey Mickey 17, before transforming into aggressive, macho Mickey 18, modelled on Robert De Niro's nastiest roles, with only snarly teeth to show as a physical difference. As Nasha, the British actress Naomi Ackie is convincingly excited by the prospect of getting both of them in bed together. The far future is surprisingly English, perhaps because Mickey 17 was made at the Warner studio in Leavesden.
Where the movie goes wrong is its satirising of the vile leader Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo) and his grotesque, manipulative wife, Ylfa (Toni Collette). It's more than heavy handed: Marshall announces that he is creating "a pure white planet full of superior people", while Nasha speaks up for "the native inhabitants of our planet", the Creepers (caterpillars-cum-walruses, given to bounding around like spring lambs).
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