Do you ever think about dying? Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) sure does. In fact, it's hard not to in his line of work. Struggling to pay off debts accrued through a failed dessert enterprise – "Macarons are not a sin" – Mickey signs up to die for a living, becoming what's known as an "Expendable" for employers who can give him a new body every time he's killed on the job. And during a four year plus space mission to the ice world Niflheim, death is never far out of reach.
Even when Mickey is very much alive, he's always made aware of the often harrowing deaths he's had to endure thanks to fellow colonists who are endlessly curious to know what it feels like to die. That's because very few people are actually stupid enough to sign up as an Expendable. That means Mickey is a special kind of stupid (or desperate, depending how you look at it). Yet it's safe to say you can never have too many Robert Pattinson's, as this latest effort from Bong Joon Ho attests to.
