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Repo Men (2010)

Director: Miguel Sapochnik

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From Time Out London

So who’s playing the Emilio Estevez role? Jude Law? Forget it – this nasty non-thriller shares nothing but a similar title with Alex Cox’s nutty 1984 head trip through LA, and more’s the pity. Here, we’re in that gone-to-pot near-future so beloved of filmmakers, where Law and Whitaker (pictured) are pals and colleagues working in a debt-recovery department with a difference: they recover human organs. The film pitches friend against friend as Law ends up with a new ticker and darts about town with fellow post-op target Alice Braga in tow. Ideas, excitement and logic are ditched in favour of blood and gore – and there’s no fun to be had watching operations and knife fights. Law and Whitaker are disastrous in the lead roles. It’s a dreary and violent film that betrays its three years spent on the shelf.

Author: Dave Calhoun

Time Out London Issue 2069 15-21 April, 2010

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John Cooper said...

Posted on Apr 18 2011 00:03 Not many films begin with a foray into the mysteries of
quantum physics with Jude Law giving a layman's version ofthe famous ` Schrodinger's Cat` paradox. Unfortunately it's downhill after that, after Jude Law's
ruthless repo man persona supposedly develops a conscience, and embarks on a mission for the good of mankind, which, one has to say, is not particularly successful as it ends in the gory death of large number
of ` mankind` . . . No doubt the producers decided to
go for a target audience of 12 year old boys with an18 certificate .( DVD sales should do well) A dis appointing film in which it's difficult to summon up any sympathy
for the unbelievable characters. Jude Law and Forest
Whitakker do their best, but they're up against it with a screenplay which fails to deliver a convincing plot. Time out's rating of one star is about right.

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Marlea said...

Posted on Sep 03 2010 00:51 While I thought the film wasn't Citizen Kane, it was worth it just for the lung outfit joke in the multistorey carpark.

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long cat said...

Posted on Apr 22 2010 23:17 Not the surreal cult classic style of Repo Man of'84 but overall a decent action movie for the unsqueamish - See if with a low expectation and you may find the blood and brutality mildly entertaining 3 stars.

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stevo said...

Posted on Apr 22 2010 12:00 Awfull!!.
Thought it would be great with Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. Was potentially a great story but with all these people getting their mechanical organs taken back, they would be littering the whole place!!!
Avoid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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