Like Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow (aka Live Die Repeat ), Pattinson plays the clown in a daffy death montage, softening the blow of his repeated demise with a mix of physical comedy and a playful score of plinking piano and swooning strings. But where Cruise's army PR man was a cocky son-of-a-bitch, Pattinson's Mickey 17 is a real Jackass.

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Bong Joon-ho is one of our more interesting filmmakers and Mickey 17 is no different. The film, which stars Robert Pattinson as a series of clones named Mickey, looks at the colonization of a new planet and the greed that comes along with it.