One of the most anticipated films of this beginning of 2025 finally released on the big screen. And he has already been hailed by criticism.
Even without being a film buff, there are directors who are regularly expected at the turn. The films of Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, or David Fincher are events for the public. This week, spectators can discover the last achievement of one of them: he signed what is considered the best film of the year 2019 and has established himself as one of the major filmmakers today.
And for good reason, the South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho won four Oscars in a single evening in 2020 (a feat that had not been accomplished in 60 years), a palm of gold, a César, a Golden Globe, but especially the approval of the public for Parasite. After also signing Snowpiecer And Okjathe Korean director releases his new English-speaking film, a science fiction comedy. She is expected to be firm by the public and was already praised by the criticism which was able to discover it in preview.
Adapted from Edward Ashton’s novel, Mickey 17 Follows a hero who literally kills himself with the task: he is hired by a company to be the “expendable” of a human expedition responsible for colonizing a world of ice. He must explore the surface of the planet and discover each of his dangers. Whenever he dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories, in order to allow the human colony to learn from his mistakes and continue his exploration of the planet.
The role of Mickey (and each of his iterations) is played by the British actor Robert Pattinson, to light years of his role in Twilight Or The Batman. He responds to Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead, fierce), Naomi Ackie (Star Wars 9, Blink Twice), Toni Collette (Inheritance, a knives drawn), Mark Ruffalo (Shutter Island, Zodiac), or Anamaria vartolomei (Count of Monte-Cristo) and Anna Mouglalis (Black baron).
Mickey 17 has already received good criticisms from the press, which was able to discover the feature film during the Berlinale 2025. qualified as “spectacular dystopia which makes fun of the Prophets of Tech” by Le Figaro, this science fiction comedy is “a satire as successful as it is froucte on our time”, judges the inrockuptibles. The American media for their part salute a film “Funny and thoughtful” (Empire Magazine), “The best English -speaking film by Bong Joon Ho to date” (Indiewire) and an “extremely entertaining” moment (Time Out). The public will be able to discover the feature film when it was released at the cinema, Wednesday March 5, 2025.