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75The sci-fi thriller Repo Men gets off to a sluggish start. But wait. You have to give the movie time to find its groove and establish its premise.
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Repo Men grafts moral ambiguity onto the action thriller, and the result is a weird but likably misshapen beast.
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63One problem with Repo Men is that there's not enough material to sustain a 111-minute motion picture.
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58It's a time-waster with brains, but ultimately not enough brains, and one that wastes too much time.
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50Repo Men makes sci-fi's strongest possible case for universal health care.
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50There's a good idea behind Repo Men, not a whole lot of thinking, but at least one whole idea.
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50There is a mild pleasure in the sight of Jude Law pirouetting with a hacksaw through gangs of extras, but the amusement is notional. I actually don't find him terribly interesting as a kinetic object.
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50If Repo Men could have sustained its ghoulish humor, it might have been a guilty pleasure.
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50There's not a lot of humor here, just violence and more violence. The acting is fine enough - Whitaker, of the talented bunch, seems to be having the best time - but the slicing and dicing overpowers the cast, the story and everything else.
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50It may have been a shrewd business decision by the film's director, Miguel Sapochnik, to treat the story as a nasty, comic thriller. But when, after a certain point, Repo Men subsumes its satire to strenuous action sequences, it loses its edge and turns into a chase movie of no special distinction.
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42A grisly one-note chase thriller.
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40The big problem here is that dark sci-fi satire works best when it aims for several targets. Repo Men aims at corporate greed, which is good, but doesn't fill in the details.
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40A tedious example of speculative fiction.
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40Where has all the fun science-fiction filmmaking gone?
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There's a key organ missing from the movie itself: a brain. In its place is a memory bank of other, better movies.
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38As an account of how for-profit big business literally rips a consumer's heart out, Repo Men is too graphic for me.
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38Sitting through this movie is worse than being locked in a room with a continuous loop of "Nip/Tuck" playing on a jumbo screen.
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38It's not cynically bad, it's simply a case of movie malpractice.
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38This is not a bad cast, but whatever wit the script aims for is lost in the queasy details director Miguel Sapochnik found more fascinating.
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34The overused homages and a tacked-on twist ending are just failed attempts to save Repo Men from its own shallow blood lust.
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33What could have been a biting, darkly comic action flick about capitalistic health care run amok is instead a familiar, gory, post-apocalyptic slog.
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Whitaker and Schreiber, both of whom are capable of brilliance, are stuck in one-dimensional roles. It's not only the characters who have mechanical organs; the film itself is equally lifeless and cold.
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30Comprising reclaimed bits from "Blade Runner," "A Clockwork Orange" and "Children of Men" and glibly served up with hyper Guy Ritchie attitude by first-time feature director Miguel Sapochnik, the resulting in-your-face mess never knows what it wants to be when it grows up.
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30It's sad when a bit of grim futuristic silliness like Repo Men falls short on all counts, down to the most basic level of entertainment value.
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25Repo Men is a rare film where Toronto plays itself. It's also the first I've ever seen where a typewriter is used as a lethal weapon.
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25The obvious question about Repo Men: Why bother?
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20Should be immediately screened in film schools across the world as a shining example of everything that is wrong with the American studio system and the increasingly dreadful junk it produces.
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20This ultra-gory speculative noir is, at its infrequent best, certifiably nuts; the rest of the time, it's one numbingly brutal slog.
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The movie shares this premise with 2008's "Repo!: The Genetic Opera." It would be worth researching who ripped off whom if both weren't ghastly.
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0Basically a soulless slasher flick, and one that demeans its gifted performers.
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0Has exactly the same premise (Repo! The Genetic Opera).
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JohnS.3Interesting premise wasted on a crappy movie.