Mickey 17

Fans of Robert Pattinson will be thrilled by the fact that he stars in not one but two roles in Bong Joon-Ho’s quirky sci-fi Mickey 17.

The Twilight actor plays Mickey Barnes, who signs up to become an “expendable” on a mission to the ice planet Niflheim, where humans hope to make a colony.

This means he is treated less like a human and more like a crash test dummy; he is put in many dangerous situations that usually result in death because he has the privilege of being reprinted by a machine.

The film begins with the 17th clone of Mickey. When he is rescued by a native creature instead of killed, Mickey returns to the ship to discover that he has been prematurely reprinted and there’s now a Mickey 18 too.

Although they initially want to kill each other instead of sharing their girlfriend Nasha (Naomi Ackie), the Mickeys realise that they can achieve great change if they work together.

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