Clone ranger

Two Robert Pattinsons are marginally better than one in award-winning writer-director Bong Joon Hos madcap sci-fi fantasy.

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Set in a deranged, dystopian future when human lab rats can be printed in 20 hours and uploaded with a donor's core memories, Mickey 17 poses discomfiting and timely questions about the widening gulf between society's haves and have-nots.

In 2054, down-on-his-luck small-time criminal Mickey Barnes (Pattinson) signs up to be an “expendable” - a worker who agrees to be reprinted every time he perishes - to avoid a fatal beating at the hands of a violent loan shark.