Movie Pass Adventures: Mickey 17

A weird sequel to The Expendables.

Mickey 18 (Robert Pattinson) and Mickey 17 (Robert Pattinson) stare at each other.
Robert Pattinson as Mickey 17. He is rendered in warm colors. The background is overlapping duplicates of the foreground face, rendered in cool colors.

If science fiction has taught me anything, it’s that if you’re planning to use multiple clones of the same person as your workforce, and you can’t have more than one clone of any person at a time, you really need strict protocols to confirm a death before whipping up a new one.

This movie won’t have many surprises for people familiar with sci-fi cliches, but that’s not very important when the tropes are used well. Pattinson does an impressive of making two characters who look and dress exactly the same very distinct. I don’t think there was ever a time when I was unsure of which Mickey I was looking at.

Today’s fake poster is a case of “good idea, weak execution.” That’s what you get when I’m whipping up a silly Photoshop project after ten on a school night.

A poster for Mickey 17 based on the poster for Seven (or Se7en, whatever).

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