A film adaptation of a book I loved that's actually good. Huh!
Ryan Gosling does great in what is often a solo act. Early on I thought the film was trying a bit too hard to be funny, but at some point it started working and I enjoyed it.
There are lots of parallels to The Martian, Arrival, and so on, but it's a sufficiently different mash-up of the concepts that it's not a problem.
I really didn't get on with this. It's too long for what it is, and over-the-top in a way that just didn't work for me.
Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley were great, but nothing else really was. The cinematography and sound design were too affected, the plot was pretty shallow and obvious, most of the body horror fell into the uncanny CGI valley for me.
It's not completely without merit: there were around 40 minutes in the middle where I…
Hmm. Didn't meet my expectations, but it was mostly OK, I guess?
I feel like Bong Joon Ho's films normally leave you room to think for yourself about the contents, but Mickey 17 doesn't really. Everything's mostly cut and dry, or explained via exposition.
Dragged in the middle, and had a bunch of little side stories that didn't really seem to add that much. And the US political stuff just felt clumsy and out of place... I'm here for sci-fi not SNL skits.
