Tag: Naomi Ackie

Mickey 17 Year: 2025 Rating: R Length: 137 minutes / 2.28 hours I can appreciate when movies try to do something new. The trick is that I also want my movies to be an escape from reality. Science fiction is meant to ask tough questions about society, but sometimes I don’t think sci-fi looks far enough out when certain plots would be completely feasible in the near future. Mickey 17 (2025) basically answers the question, “When the poor have nothing else to give, what will capitalism do to them?” Answer: clone them as expendables for dangerous menial labor situations. Acting-wise, Robert Pattinson carries this movie on his ability to truly pull off cloned versions of the same person with quite unique personalities. Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette are also great in their roles as a couple who use authoritarianism to subdue a population on an alien planet. Naomi Ackie and Steven Yeun were good too, but didn’t have the extremes the other characters were portraying....