Moon Is a near damn perfect character study with Sam Rockwell and (Kevin Spacey) exploring the themes of isolation, cloning, and classic science-fiction large-corporation bad.

Mickey 17 tries to be bigger and stuffs all the above in with human colonization, jabs at the thinly veiled US Christian right, and the effects of cloning on wider populations.

It's not perfect. It's quite clumsy. It's too big to be honest. But it is quite fun.

Robert Pattinson has been doing great work in his post sparkling days picking up interesting roles and playing them in interesting ways. He does it here with Mickey, and manages to find enough variance between the Mickeys (Mickies?) to make them feel like distinct characters.

Mark Ruffalo continues his villain arc and long may it continue. Toni Collette stood opposite him is chewing through every scene and the hamminess here is spot on.

Naomi Ackie mostly provides a point of grounding in a movie of absurdities, and is used mostly as a plot device until the final act where she starts to have some agency.

The movie takes its time getting up to speed, introducing characters and then plays a combination of clone shenanigans and romantic story arc for a while. We then move on to arrival at the planet, more clone shenanigans, followed by a big CGI fight scene (no, no joke. No sky beams though), followed by an epilogue.