Berlinale 2025: Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Mickey 17’ is Sharp Sci-Fi Wackiness
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“You’re an expendable! You’re here to be expended.” Perhaps we shouldn’t consider any life as expendable. Bong Joon-ho’s long-awaited new science fiction movie is finally here and finally ready to be experienced. This big budget, made-by-Hollywood sci-fi spectacle doesn’t really belong at film festivals but hey I’ll let it slide because it’s worth watching anywhere. Mickey 17 is Bong Joon-ho’s newest feature film project since winning all the Oscars with Parasite in 2019; it’s adapted from the sci-fi novel titled “Mickey7” written by Edward Ashton. Bong upped the number of Mickey clones from 7 to 17 just for fun because 7 wasn’t enough, to add in more clones to this futuristic story. Bong Joon-ho’s other English-language science fiction movie Snowpiercer played at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival (I was there, too – read my original review) and now they’ve invited him back to the 2025 Berlin Film Festival to screen Mickey 17. There is nothing “chaotic” about this movie at all, it’s occasionally wacky and funky and weird, but it’s still a sharp, streamlined story about clones. This is Bong Joon-ho’s Starship Troopers. It rules – and it’s even better than Snowpiercer. // Continue Reading ›
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