I watched this in the Curzon with some friends on the 20th of March, 2025.
A bit of a disappointment. It’s about a near-future scenario where human cloning was invented and then banned on Earth, but not for colony missions. The story follows Mickey, a naive guy who signs up for a colony mission as an Expendable, meaning he is willing to be cloned and used for dangerous missions. Along the way he keeps dying for science and dangerous work, until when they reach the colony, he is left for dead after an accident, but survives and makes it back only to find his next clone already printed.
It’s a bit of a mishmash of cloning ethics, a colonising species trying to wipe out a native species, a love story, etc etc, without any clear vision. I appreciated some of the background worldbuilding - a colony ship, bits of technology and so on, but otherwise very much a copy-paste dystopian space setting with not much remarkable about it.
Robert Pattinson was really good, he really had the range in this, to the extent that even without the clones speaking you could distingush them by their personalities, but otherwise a bad film and a wasted concept.