Year: 2025 (February)
Genre:
Adventure / Drama / SciFi
Director:
Bong Joon Ho
Stars:
Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo, Johnny Li Gotti, Liam Edwards, Saskia Clarissa Hedges, Ricarda Clay...
Storyline:
In the future, death is just a job description... Until one man refuses to be disposable.
In Mickey 17, humanity has launched a desperate colonization mission to a frozen exoplanet. Mickey, a disposable worker known as an "expendable," is genetically engineered to perform the most dangerous tasks — dying repeatedly, only to be regrown with memories intact.
But something changes with Mickey's seventeenth iteration.
No longer content to simply serve and sacrifice, Mickey 17 begins to question the system, uncover secrets about the colony’s command structure, and even encounter a previous version of himself that didn’t quite die as expected.
When you're built to die, what happens when you start to live?
Similar movies to Mickey 17
If you're into cerebral science fiction with themes of identity and mortality, Mickey 17 stands proudly alongside:
Moon (2009) – Clones, ethics, and isolation
Ex Machina (2014) – Artificial life and philosophical rebellion
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) – Identity, humanity, and dystopian futures
💡 Like these, Mickey 17 offers a sleek, cerebral blend of science fiction and character study, exploring what happens when a cog in the machine develops a soul — and stops spinning.
📌 Final Thoughts
With Bong Joon-ho’s masterful direction, Robert Pattinson’s layered performance, and a chillingly plausible future, Mickey 17 is an ambitious, thought-provoking space odyssey — asking not how we survive, but who we are when survival is no longer enough.
He's supposed to be expendable.
But this time… he's essential.
Which of these films have you seen? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
