It’s almost cliché to worship this script — but goddamn, it’s a knockout every time. The emotional work this movie does is so stealthy, it sneaks up on you. For most of the runtime, Michael doesn’t even seem to have an arc. He’s tortured, sure. But he wears his distress lightly, like a favorite pair of pants.
Part of that is Clooney — cool, underplayed, a perfect match for Arthur’s manic moralism. And part of it is Gilroy’s clockwork script,…
Maybe the foremost example of how far a great premise can carry a film. Just about everything about this is hammy and amateurish, and yet, it remains fairly watchable despite that. There’s a taut 30 or so minutes of cat and mouse that are worth the price of admission.
It's not every day you get a $100 million sci-fi puzzle box from one of the foremost directors of our generation. But it's also not everyday that a film has to follow in the footsteps of an all-time masterpiece.
And while Mickey 17 does itself no favors standing in the shadow of Parasite, Director Bong's latest is a bit of a mess – even when evaluated on its own terms.
There's so much inventiveness here. The world Bong's created is…
