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.

On Niflheim, the colony run by failed senator Kenneth Marshall (a bizarre, gurning turn from Mark Ruffalo that’s even more oily than his character in Poor Things) and his similarly OTT wife Ylfa (Toni Collette) unspools into disarray after an extra Mickey is erroneously reprinted and the creepers mobilise outside in frightening numbers.

Action sickos and Bong Joon-heads may now rejoice. After "Parasite" gave way to six long years of famine, the Oscar-winner has returned with a feast, serving up a sci-fi spectacle bursting with enough lofty ideas and buffoonish antics to keep even the hungriest fans sated -- especially if the Korean auteur goes quiet for another half-decade.

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),

At its London premiere, Mr Pattinson also said he'd "love to do the voices of cartoons" after becoming a dad last year.