Words Jim Roberts

Mickey Barnes is a loyal employee. He’s committed to his job. Gives his all to it. You could even say he’d die for it! But, come the seventeenth go around as an expendable, he has to be honest… he hates dying!

Based on Edward Ashton’s sci-fi novel Mickey 7, the film launches us far into the future where humanity is attempting to colonise the ice world of Niflheim. One strategy is through the use of disposable employees like Mickey, who’s sent to scope things out and each failed experiment/death sees a new version of his body cloned and continuation of the mission with, most of, his memory intact.

Academy Award-winning writer-director Bong Joon Ho takes his signature style into this existential expedition of what it means, and how it feels, to die. The question is made even thornier when Mickey realises his employers have created multiple concurrent versions of him and Mark Ruffalo’s Hieronymous Marshall is set on exterminating the duplicate – without knowing which is the real Mickey.

Oddball Mickey will cross paths with other colonists from an ensemble supporting cast that includes Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, and Toni Collette. As the hidden truths of his role and existence unfold, he’s faced with choices that could threaten the established elites and any dreams of a new space world. Plus, the possibility that maybe immortality just isn’t all it’s cracked up to be?

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