Repo Men

[Cyrrex]

Oddly, my wife decided we should see this movie.  Jude Law and crazy-eyed Forrest Whitaker.  The premise was sort of interesting (though quite ridiculous), and I'd even say the first 2/3rds of the movie was actually okay.  Basically they go around reposessing artificial organs from people who default on the horrible credit terms.  Bad guy (Law) then becomes good guy and chaos ensues.  I won't ruin it for anyone who actually decides to watch this movie, but the last third is pretty stupid, and the last 5 minutes will probably make you regret you even bothered with it.

So, a pretty resounding "meh".  Enjoy!

[SurfD]

My main problem with this movie was that after watching it, I came to the conclusion that the script was written by a bunch of people sitting around a starbucks table.  In the middle of sipping their overpriced lattes, one suddenly goes: "You know, Total Recall was an awesome movie, but, I think it needed some moral issues to struggle with."   And then his friend pipes up with:  "Yeah, and it could have used a bit of philosophical maundering as well".

And then they proceeded to try to re-invent a modern version of Total Recall, but somehow managed to completely fuck up the formula that made TR a good action flick, while at the same time, managing to totally fail at injecting any kind of meaningful moral OR philosophical point into the movie as well.

[Yegolev]

The conversation was probably more like "Dude, did you see Repo: The Genetic Opera?" "Yea!"

[climbjtree]

And wasn't there a cartoon with the same premise?

[Yegolev]

And a Monty Python sketch.

[angry.bob]

This sort of had an interesting premise until they gave the whole entire movie away in the trailer. Also, I like Jude Law, but he's completely unbelievable as an ultimate badass.

Anyway, this movie would be 5 minutes long in any industrialized country except the US>

Jude Law and Popeye: Hey, you didn't pay for your organ. We've come to repossess it. Or to rescan your National Health Service card.
Guy with Organ: Oh, hang on a sec. The bar had been demagnetized and I just got a replacement...
Jude and Popeye. *scan card* Alright, very good. Have a good day sir.
THE END.

[Mrbloodworth]

This sort of had an interesting premise until they gave the whole entire movie away in the trailer.

Its taken from two prior movies.

And Repo: The genetic opera was still infinitely better than this one, and the original.

[HaemishM]

Finally saw this tonight. It was an interesting premise, utterly ruined by being made into a movie. The tech behind organs wouldn't require repo men at all, at least not badass assassin type repo men. Just have an automatic cutoff switch or a taser built into the damn thing, get within range and offer the customer a chance to pay or go along quietly, if not ZAP. Problem fucking solved. They might as well have told you the ending in the beginning, as it was telegraphed quite badly. I thought Law did ok as the badass but the badassery was completely unnecessary. This premise could have made for a very interesting, thoughtful film, but they went for braindead action instead.