The actor plays a repeatedly reconstituted "expendable" in this dark comedy set in a nascent ice planet colony, also starring Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Colette and Mark Ruffalo.

Like Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow (aka Live Die Repeat ), Pattinson plays the clown in a daffy death montage, softening the blow of his repeated demise with a mix of physical comedy and a playful score of plinking piano and swooning strings. But where Cruise's army PR man was a cocky son-of-a-bitch, Pattinson's Mickey 17 is a real Jackass.

"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.

While two Mickeys may be better than one, by the time you get to seven or eight (the idea of Edward Ashton's sci-fi novel "Mickey7"), or a number as unwieldy as 18 (the inflated figure in Bong Joon Ho's big-screen adaptation),

Although it is science-fiction to its core, director Bong Joon Ho’s first film since his Oscar-winning Parasite six years ago is in many ways a not-that-absurd look at where we just might be headed as a society.

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"Mickey 17" explores themes often touched on in Bong Joon-ho films, but it doesn't do as well with the messaging as his previous efforts.