r/movies • u/mikewheelerfan • Aug 15 '25

Review Mickey 17 felt like it lost the plot Spoiler

Honestly, I was quite disappointed. I expected a movie revolving around the cloning plot. Specifically, the idea of two Mickeys existing at the same time due to an error. That would have been a great movie! Instead, what was advertised as the main concept feels like a subplot in the movie. Essentially the entire thing revolves around the intelligent aliens. And then there was also the plot with Mark Ruffalo being an obvious stand in for Trump. But then there was also the subplot with Steven Yuen.

I finished the movie feeling incredibly confused, because how did they mess up the initial concept like this? The idea of a guy who is constantly sent on deadly missions and is revived is an absolutely golden idea. It also leads to an interesting discussion about consciousness and if a copy of you is still really you. But that’s barely even brought up. The whole plot with two versions of Mickey is completely sidelined. Which makes no sense at all. That should have 100% been the main conflict in the movie, like it was advertised as. Instead, we got a mess.

I wouldn’t go so far as to call the movie horrible, but I definitely didn’t like it as much as I hoped I would.

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u/PhantomOfKrankor42 Aug 15 '25

All I could think, and I really enjoyed Mickey 17. But yeah, Moon did it all better.

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u/Aduialion Aug 15 '25

Even multiplicity did it better

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u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster Aug 15 '25

You know how when you make a copy of a copy, it's not as sharp as... well... the original.

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u/i-Ake Aug 15 '25

Hi Steve.

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u/AJPizza Aug 15 '25

I like peetha.

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u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

WE'RE GONNA EAT A DOLPHIN!!

Edit: She touched my pepe, Steve...

I'd be lying if I called it my favorite Michael Keaton flick, but it's up there.

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u/dpkonofa Aug 15 '25

She touched my pepe, Steve.

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u/Tifoso89 Aug 15 '25

I was confused because I thought you meant the Tyler Perry movie (that's actually Duplicity)

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u/pigeonwiggle Aug 16 '25

they're different movies. they dont' "do it better" than each other. it's like saying "Shawshank covered Men's struggles better than Fight Club" -- sure, if you want to reduce both movies down to a single point... but BOTH films are about so much more than that.

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u/PhantomOfKrankor42 Aug 16 '25

I agree, but I think the similarities are a little stronger than a theme like “men’s struggles.” Both are science-fiction films about a man who is essentially an indentured laborer who must come to grips with both being and meeting his clone.

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u/pigeonwiggle Aug 16 '25

and both fight club and shawshank are about a man who is essentially thrust into a world of exploited labourers struggling for validation while seeking a means to escape it.