Mickey 17 longs to make sweeping and grandiose political statements but has to settle for a referendum on Robert Pattinson’s merits as a leading man. While those who are wholly immune to his charms should stay clear, if you’ve been won over by his transformation into a bona fide leading man, then it’s worth the price of admission, if nothing more than to see what Bong Joon Ho can do with a mega budget. Bong has been one of the grittiest, most genre-bending international auteurs in the cinematic game. He’s never been one to pull punches or to withhold layering in seriously heavy social critiques. This time, he decides to use this adaptation of 2022 science fiction novel Mickey7 as a pretext to level criticism at a surfeit of targets. The issue is that with all of the opprobrium being spray-gunned in practically every direction, most of it fails to resonate in any tangible way.