based on novel or bookdark comedyspace travelbetrayalalien planetcreaturespace adventurehuman clonespaceship2050sspace sci-fifuturistic worldcolonial workforceclone technologyfrozen world
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
disappointment of the year. obnoxious film. it falls in the same category as <i>everything everywhere all at once </i>to me. i was debating several times about an hour in if i should dnf it, but i really wanted to give it a chance.
my biggest pet peeve in movies is when adaption from books rely heavily (or even at all) on audible narration of feelings thoughts and prior events instead of just showing it. what is the point of adaption if you're gonna tell us like a visual audiobook?
anyways I couldn't care less. the trump parallels were also too on the nose. just such a boring film, and I don't find this sort of humor very fun. sorry!!!!
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Was hard to understand at first but like the message it was trying to get across and I also liked how Mickey ended up to be his own person and live life instead of forever being an expendable
Not the best work from Bong Joon Ho, but I still enjoyed it. I was expecting more, especially from the guy who made Parasite. There's a lot that could have been explored, but overall feels a bit undercooked.
Robert Pattinson is tremendously talented and so much fun to watch. He really elevates the material and carries the film. Shoutout to Toni Collette who's great in everything she's in.
This movie hooked me early with its dry, dark humor and never really stayed throughout. Bong Joon-ho’s class commentary hits harder here than in Parasite for me. It’s colder, more procedural, and the Expendable program makes labor literally disposable. I usually don't like too much subtelty and this movie did that well.
Pattinson is great playing two distinct people. I could easily tell them apart. Ruffalo is terrifyingly funny as an abusive bureaucrat; there’s a moment where a subordinate asks to “record this” that tells you revolt was already simmering. Nasha’s arc surprised me. I initially thought keeping both Mickeys was cruel, but it reveals a messy, protective kind of love that treats them as two real individuals.
The native “critters” are a smart flip: they look soft, but their response to a stolen infant is total mobilization, which reframes human colonization as the real aggression.
It ends more hopeful than Parasite IMO. Overall a better movie for me as well. I guess the book readers will find some plotlines cut abruptly but that happens with almost all books and cannot be helped. As a standalone, this is a 9/10 movie for me. I'm usually very critical about pacing and this movie doesn't have any issues with it.