Movie - Mickey 17 (2025)

 

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In the year 2050, Mickey Barnes and his friend Timo join a spaceship crew heading to colonize the ice-planet Niflheim, in order to escape a murderous loan shark. Timo becomes a shuttle pilot, while Mickey signs up as an "Expendable", an illegal process where he takes on lethal tasks and a new clone of him with restored memories is created after each death. During the voyage, a romance develops between Mickey and security agent Nasha.

Four years later, the spaceship arrives at snowy Niflheim. Using multiple iterations of Mickey, the ships scientists develop a vaccine for the planet's pathogens. The seventeenth Mickey is sent to capture a native lifeform dubbed "Creepers," but falls into a fissure, where Timo, believing him dead, reports it and leaves with Mickey's flamethrower, and the crew creates the Mickey 18 clone. However, the Creepers rescue Mickey 17, pushing him out of the fissure.

Mickey 17 returns to the ship, where he meets Mickey 18, a more aggressive clone. The expedition's leader, Kenneth Marshall, has sworn that in the event of "Multiples" of clones, all clones will be eliminated. As such, Mickey 18 attempts to kill Mickey 17, but Mickey 17 suggests they secretly rotate duties and deaths to survive. The two are interrupted when they witness Timo selling drugs made from flamethrower fuel. Blaming him for the situation that caused them to leave Earth in the first place, Mickey 18 tries to kill Timo, but relents when they are interrupted by Nasha. Mickey 18 leaves with Nasha, while Mickey 17 is taken to dinner with Marshall, his wife Ylfa, and security agent Kai. At the dinner Mickey 17 reacts severely to being fed experimental meat and painkillers. Kai rescues Mickey 17 from being executed and brings him to her quarters, but Mickey 17 flees back to Nasha when Kai attempts to seduce him.

Nasha learns of the clones and accepts them, but when Kai tries to report them, she stops her. When Mickey 17 informs Mickey 18 of the dinner incident, an enraged Mickey 18 decides to kill Marshall at a public ceremony commemorating a piece of Niflheim rock. Two baby Creepers, Luko and Zoco, emerge from a Niflheim rock. Mickey 17 captures Zoco, but Luko is killed by security when it attempts to jump on Marshall. Nasha stops Mickey 18 from killing Marshall, but with the Multiples exposed, Mickey 17, 18, and Nasha are arrested. Meanwhile, thousands of Creepers gather outside the ship, calling for Zoco. In the brig, Mickey 17's description of the Creepers helping him makes Nasha realize they are sentient. Timo arrives and tries to kill Mickey 17, revealing that the loan shark has an agent onboard who will kill him if he doesn't record himself dismembering Mickey. Nasha and Mickey 18 overpower him, but security intervenes and takes them all to Marshall.

Marshall wants to eliminate the Creepers, and destroys Mickey's memory backups to prevent his re-cloning. Marshall's assistant, Preston, convinces Marshall to make the Mickeys go outside and compete to collect Creeper tails, with the winner allowed to live. The Mickeys are fitted with remote-detonated bomb vests to ensure compliance.

Once outside, the Mickeys seek out the Creepers' leader. Marshall follows with a security team to eliminate them. Mickey 17 uses a translation device to warn the Creeper leader about Marshall's plan, and the leader demands Zoco's release and the sacrifice of a human in return for Luko's death. Mickey 17 urges Nasha to free Zoco. She takes Ylfa hostage to ensure Zoco's release, and security agents, secretly working against Marshall, arrest Ylfa. Mickey 18 detonates his vest, killing himself and Marshall to meet the Creepers' demands.

Afterwards, Mickey 17 and the rest of the humans make peace with the Creepers, Preston and Marshall's collaborators face justice, and Ylfa later commits suicide. The loan shark associate attacks Timo, but Timo kills him in self-defense and uses the incident to testify against the loan sharks. Nasha becomes the colony's political leader and, during a groundbreaking ceremony, Mickey 17, now just called "Mickey Barnes", destroys the cloning device, ending the Expendable program.