Do you ever think about dying? Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) sure does. In fact, it's hard not to in his line of work. Struggling to pay off debts accrued through a failed dessert enterprise – "Macarons are not a sin" – Mickey signs up to die for a living,

The Berlin Film Festival got a double dose of Robert Pattinson with the premiere of Bong Joon Ho's "Mickey 17" on Saturday night. And the actor – who plays an explorer and his clone in this trippy sci-fi adventure – managed to at least double the cheering inside the theater after the film's credits rolled.

Although it is science-fiction to its core, director Bong Joon Ho’s first film since his Oscar-winning Parasite six years ago is in many ways a not-that-absurd look at where we just might be headed as a society.

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While two Mickeys may be better than one, by the time you get to seven or eight (the idea of Edward Ashton's sci-fi novel "Mickey7"), or a number as unwieldy as 18 (the inflated figure in Bong Joon Ho's big-screen adaptation),

Robert Pattinson plays the titular Mickey, a loser sent into space, where he is cloned with hilarious results in this cult-novel adaptation 4/5 stars Korean master Bong Joon-ho is back with his first film since 2019's Cannes- and Oscar-winning Parasite.