Repo Men

Name: Repo Men
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: March 19, 2010
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 32
Cast: Alice Braga, Forest Whitaker, Jude Law

2010

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: March 19, 2010 | R

Starring: Alice Braga, Forest Whitaker, Jude Law

Summary: In the futuristic action-thriller, humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don't pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property... with noIn the futuristic action-thriller, humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don't pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property... with no concern for your comfort or survival. Remy is one of the best organ repo men in the business. But when he suffers a cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself fitted with the company's top-of-the-line heart-replacement... as well as a hefty debt. But a side effect of the procedure is that his heart's no longer in the job. When he can't make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, Remy's former partner Jake, to track him down. (Universal Pictures)… Expand

Director: Miguel Sapochnik

Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 111 min

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Rene Rodriguez

The 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. Read full review

Keith Phipps

It’s a time-waster with brains, but ultimately not enough brains, and one that wastes too much time. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Repo Men makes sci-fi's strongest possible case for universal health care. Read full review

Claudia Puig

Sitting through this movie is worse than being locked in a room with a continuous loop of "Nip/Tuck" playing on a jumbo screen. Read full review

Roger Moore

This is not a bad cast, but whatever wit the script aims for is lost in the queasy details director Miguel Sapochnik found more fascinating. Read full review

Andy Klein

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. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Basically a soulless slasher flick, and one that demeans its gifted performers. Read full review

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RobynA

Mar 19, 2010

I really enjoyed it, and even that strange bit near the end could make me hate it.

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fatbikez

Sep 6, 2010

They would have done a much better job then they did on this. They should have been repoing cars or other cool stuff.. not body parts1.. come on that was wack Jay

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jonslow

Dec 8, 2018

"New Kidney: $524,000
New Eye: $345,000
New Heart: $975,000
Total Payment: $2,600,000"
**** I should kill myself then reborn.

Movie deliver with a new concept I never seen. Excited and I like the ending.

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ChadS

Mar 23, 2010

Remy(Jude Law) is no romantic; no Parisian/Montmarte poet dreaming about a comely courtesean named Satine, as he hunts and pecks at a manual typewriter. He's not writing "Your Song"; he's writing about your kidney, your liver, your heart. Remy is a repo man, a murderer. If this Remy(Jude Law) is no romantic; no Parisian/Montmarte poet dreaming about a comely courtesean named Satine, as he hunts and pecks at a manual typewriter. He's not writing "Your Song"; he's writing about your kidney, your liver, your heart. Remy is a repo man, a murderer. If this futuristic government organized a tribunal for the medical crimes perpetrated by these blue collar killers, both Remy and Jake(Forrest Whitaker), and others like them in "The Union", would no doubt utilize the Nuremberg Defense(the glee in which the repo men go about liquidating a ship seems very Nazi-like), since they were only following the directives from their boss Frank(Liev Schreiber). Unwilling to take his wife's advice about taking a new position in the company, Remy, nevertheless, becomes nearly human again after a near-death experience. While on a job(he shows up at the house of a composer who is late on a payment for his heart), Remy finally faces the music when an occupational accident leads to an organ outfitting of his own. With his humanity restored through addition by subtraction, the "heartless" repo man can no longer laugh at delinquent clients who "Cry [Him] a River" at collection time. As Remy hears this Etta James song a second time, performed by a lounge singer/prostitute(?) named Beth(Alice Braga), he receives the lyrics like poetry, without the veneer of his profession's cooptation back at the nightclub, where the credo "a job is a job" was uttered. During a routine sweep with Jake, the repo man uses his stun gun on a child, but he can't finish the job. Unlike Chan-wook Park's "Boksuneun naui geot"("Old Boy" is not the only Park film that gets referenced), this young boy is spared the scalpel. Although "Repo Men" degenerates into pure spectacle near the end, it climaxes with a spectacular display of masochism, clearly, a loving homage to Korean film, in which Remy and Beth consumate their love(for each other and for humanity) through pain.… Expand

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Vyras

Jul 23, 2013

A solid sci-fi action film with a pretty cool premise. Jude Law and Forest Whitaker work pretty well together in buddy cop sort of way, Liev Schreiber also does well. The story though is pretty generic and the ending will both surprise and irritate.

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DavidP

Mar 23, 2010

This film is an uneven mix, starting off as a black comedy, shifts quickly out of funny territory and into stilted drama, and eventually finds itself stumbling into an action picture. The plot, which has been derided by some as a poorer, commercial version of the cult classic "Repo! The This film is an uneven mix, starting off as a black comedy, shifts quickly out of funny territory and into stilted drama, and eventually finds itself stumbling into an action picture. The plot, which has been derided by some as a poorer, commercial version of the cult classic "Repo! The Genetic Opera" and dismissed by others as a barely more palatable version of the atrocious "Repo! The Genetic Opera" in fact bears almost no resemblance to the 2008 film. In fact, it owes much more to "Logan's Run." If you saw that film, you've already seen this one, and seen it better done with more imagination. The main problem I had with the setup of this film is that there was no reason to believe that this would actually happen, that in an otherwise quite mundane world we'd allow people to kill each other on the streets for the price of their artificial organs. That wouldn't be a barrier if the film embraced it's early, satirical tone, but as it quickly attempts to take itself seriously, it becomes very hard to ignore the fact that the entire premise is utterly ridiculous. In the end, I can't make up my mind as to whether this picture is a poorly conceived critique of the health care system in the USA or an unnecessarily graphic action vehicle, but it doesn't ever quite work on either level.… Expand

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Acropolis

Sep 22, 2010

The only good thing about this movie is its premise. OH WAIT Repo! The Genetic Opera got there first. The premise sure was original when Repo! first used it. I guess someone thought it would be a good idea to take all the music and enjoyment out of Repo! and replace it with failure.

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