Mickey 17 Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.0
Video		5.0
Audio		5.0
Extras		2.0
Overall		3.5

Mickey 17 Blu-ray Movie Review

17 is the loneliest number.

Reviewed by Randy Miller III May 9, 2025

What do you get when you borrow elements from films like Edge of Tomorrow, Moon, Oblivion, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and Starship Troopers, and put South Korean director Bong Joon Ho at the helm? Something that should have been quite a bit better than Mickey 17, a visually ambitious but dramatically meh sci-fi black comedy. It has more than a few great moments, sure, but also falls head-first into the trappings of his lesser work like 2017's surprisingly awful Okja with a fairly uneven tone, questionable casting, and almost backwards momentum.

For a synopsis and critique of Mickey 17, please see my recent 4K review. An alternate (and perhaps even more critical) take on the material can be found in Brian Orndorf's theatrical coverage. Are we both wrong? Maybe.

Mickey 17 Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

As usual, please see my 4K review for a general overview of Mickey 17's visual aesthetic, which features a relatively seamless blend of sporadic CGI elements and dystopian production design work overtime to create a future world that's easy enough to get lost in. Much of the praise that I heaped upon Warner Bros.' UHD edition can also be applied here but dialed back a little to stay more in line with format expectations, meaning that this is still very much an attractively precise presentation with excellent color values, good shadow detail, tight contrast, and a strong and stable appearance that looks extremely robust in motion. It's also unsurprisingly a shade or two lighter than its UHD counterpart, though again without the HDR-assisted pinpoint precision and breadth of values adjacent to its deepest blacks and, as rare as they are, its brightest whites. Nonetheless, it's an overwhelmingly solid and satisfying Blu-ray presentation indeed and doesn't suffer from any obvious compression-related issues on this dual-layered disc, making it a perfectly suitable option for anyone not yet equipped for 4K or limited to a small or medium-sized display.

Mickey 17 Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

For details about Mickey 17's default Atmos mix, please see my recent 4K review. Please note that this Blu-ray edition features different dub and subtitle options than that release.

Mickey 17 Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

This one-disc release ships in a keepcase with poster-themed cover artwork and a Digital Copy redemption code. The included bonus features are identical to those found on the 4K edition and covered in my linked review.

• Behind the Lens: Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 (11:35)

• Mickey 17: A World Reimagined (9:47)

• The Faces of Niflheim (8:03)

• Trailers (2 clips, 4:44 total)

Mickey 17 Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Many acclaimed directors before Bong Joon Ho have ridden a massive wave of commercial and critical acclaim to get carte blanche from a major studio... and failed to meet or beat box office expectations. The jury's still out on whether or not Mickey 17 deserved to flop, but it's clearly not on the same immediate level as the director's better (and smaller) work. Even so, it has a few inspired ideas and great moments and, while I definitely wouldn't recommend this one as a complete blind buy, die-hard fans of the cast and director may find more to like here. They'll at least be appreciative of Warner Bros. 4K and Blu-ray packages, which both offer terrific A/V specs and a few decent bonus features, yet for total newcomers this one's firmly stuck between "stream it first" and "maybe when it's on sale".