Big Fat Movie Review
They can have it back...
...now if only I could have my 111 minutes back. Repo Men looked like a very promising film. Set in the not too distant future mechanical organs and joints are available and regularly implanted into humans. The only hitch is the high cost of these organs patented by mega corporation The Union. To make them available The Union puts individuals on high interest payment plans to pay off the six figure cost of implants. Of course when they fall behind on payments The Union sends in the Repo Men who viciously and coldly reclaim the organs which usually leaves the customer dead. Sounds cool right. Sadly the end of this movie repos all the good stuff that was in it, leaving it sliced open and dead in a pool of its own blood. *Spoilers Ahead* This film pulls the classic now you see it, now you didn't. I simply can't stand when directors do this. You find out at the end that the last half of the movie was all a virtual dream...yippee. It's simply lazy directing or writing or both. It is, in fact, not a twist when everything you watched for the last hour is flushed down the toilet in a few seconds. It's simply a waste of your time. I'm already suspending disbelief watching a fantasy sci-fi movie and then I find out that what wasn't real, wasn't real. Duh, I knew that when I rented the movie, stop rubbing it in. Another big problem with this movie is once Jude Law gets his implant and realizes how cruel what he does is, we are suddenly supposed to feel bad for him and hope he escapes. He's tantamount to a serial killer...I say let him get a taste of what he did to countless others. There's also some just plain strange things in this movie. In one of the last scenes the two main characters Jude Law and Alice Braga make out as they slice each other open and scan each others organs...real sexy? It's a strange as the cover. Yes, I'm also wondering why Jude Law is holding a cup of coffee? Maybe he's going to throw hot coffee in your face and blind you so you don't have to watch this movie or so he can repo your organs. Did he pull that cup of joe out of his holster? We may never know, but I do know this move stunk and you're wasting your time if you see it. Watch a decent move like Repo Man (1984) or a really strange, but good film like Repo the Genetic Opera (2008).