Hey, it shares a major plot point with Keanu Reeves' and China Mieville's The Book of Elsewhere! What if you could live forever? Scratch that, what if you could die forever, as in over and over and over again?
The first half of Bong Joon-Ho's film is pretty great. When the titular Mickey finally meets a copy of himself, things fall apart.
Robert Pattinson is good but never does seem to get his working class American accent consistent. New characters show up out of the blue. Mark Ruffalo as the villainous president is actually not that great. I'm willing to be a nickel that Bong told him to "do his best Trump," and it's not a very good Trump. The animal rights stuff isn't unwelcome, but not really integrated the way it should be either.
The ending does manage to tie the important stuff together in spite of the sloppy second half. I liked it. I could have waited to watch on DVD too, nothing lost.
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