The Berlin Film Festival got a double dose of Robert Pattinson with the premiere of Bong Joon Ho's "Mickey 17" on Saturday night. And the actor – who plays an explorer and his clone in this trippy sci-fi adventure – managed to at least double the cheering inside the theater after the film's credits rolled.

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.

The actor plays a repeatedly reconstituted "expendable" in this dark comedy set in a nascent ice planet colony, also starring Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Colette and Mark Ruffalo.

Director Bong Joon Ho, actor Robert Pattinson and fellow cast members were on hand today in Berlin to introduce the German premiere of their new sci-fi Mickey 17. Adapted from Edward Ashton's 2022 sci-fi novel of ‘Mickey 7',

While two Mickeys may be better than one, by the time you get to seven or eight (the idea of Edward Ashton's sci-fi novel "Mickey7"), or a number as unwieldy as 18 (the inflated figure in Bong Joon Ho's big-screen adaptation),