Mickey 17
Academy-Award winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) returns with the raucous sci-fi comedy Mickey 17, a high-pitched, high-concept combo of slapstick and social commentary that wildly entertains. Mickey (Robert Pattinson) and his business partner Timo (Steven Yeun) find themselves in debt to a dangerous gangster. In order to get out of town, and off-world, Mickey unwittingly volunteers to be an "expendable" on a four-year mission to colonize a distant planet. This means that he will perform dangerous tasks, and his body will be "re-printed" when he dies. On the ship he finds his soulmate Nasha (Naomi Ackie) and realizes moments of happiness. But when Mickey 17 gets into an accident and comes face-to-face with the new planet's crawly, toothy inhabitants (dubbed the "Creepers"), he's presumed dead, and a "Mickey 18" is printed...
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