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Repo Men (2010)

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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 142
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 110

Repo Men has an intriguing premise, as well as a likable pair of leads, but they're wasted on a rote screenplay, indifferent direction, and mind-numbing gore.

Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 21

Repo Men has an intriguing premise, as well as a likable pair of leads, but they're wasted on a rote screenplay, indifferent direction, and mind-numbing gore.

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Writers Eric Garcia and Garrett Lerner team with director Miguel Sapochnik to adapt Garcia's novel about a repo man named Remy whose body has been constructed almost entirely of artificial organs. When Remy (Jude Law) fails to keep up on payments for his recent heart transplant, his former partner vows to take back the organ by force if necessary. Meanwhile, Remy finds an unexpected ally in the form of his long-lost wife, Beth (Alice Braga), who has also been retrofitted with numerous artificial

R, 1 hr. 59 min.

Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: Miguel Sapochnik

Written By: Garrett Lerner, Eric Garcia

In Theaters: Mar 19, 2010 Wide

On DVD: Jul 27, 2010

Box Office:$13.2M

Universal Studios

This was too long, mean, and gory for me, though the satirical gloss and well-executed trick ending will probably impress some.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

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Better and smarter than you might expect.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Newsday

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Rafer Guzman

Newsday

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The overused homages and a tacked-on twist ending are just failed attempts to save Repo Men from its own shallow blood lust.

July 4, 2010 Full Review Source: NPR

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Ian Buckwalter

NPR

Top Critic

Alternately smirking and dully disgusting.

March 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

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Repo Men, rough though it is, is disturbing enough, funny enough and shocking enough to work on some weird level.

March 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Detroit News

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Tom Long

Detroit News

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As a recession-era satire, Repo Men strikes a very bitter chord.

March 19, 2010 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

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Sapochnik, Law, Whitaker, and Schreiber have so much fun with all the extremes, wallowing in their shameless excess with the right dollop of macabre, self-aware humor.

April 8, 2012 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Enthusiastic stealing from other movies is great if I can feel the enthusiasm. I couldn't.

April 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com

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Dave White

Movies.com

Sapochnik is completely unable to create suspension of disbelief, at least with the preposterous plot he had to work with.

January 31, 2011 Full Review Source: Las Vegas CityLife

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Matt Kelemen

Las Vegas CityLife Source: Las Vegas CityLife

'You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a movie...' Well, hang on now. Those anti-piracy warnings shouldn't simply be reserved for the download-happy consumers at home.

October 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Quickflix

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Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

Repo Men never quite finds its own identity, abandoning any attempt at serious comment early on in favour of ludicrous levels of lopped limbs, cartilage and claret.

August 24, 2010 Full Review Source: SFX Magazine

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Jordan Farley

SFX Magazine

If only Sapochnik and Garcia had stuck more to their ideas than their guns, they'd really have something.

August 3, 2010 Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner

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Rossiter Drake

San Francisco Examiner

A paranoid fantasy of what's over the horizon if the macabre rumors about the Obamacare death panels are true.

July 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Sly Fox

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Kam Williams

Sly Fox

A futuristic yet not so far fetched transplant take-out invasive surgical thriller, pondering assembly line homicidal health care for profit and a recipients resistance movement that may have already arrived.

July 12, 2010 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze

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Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

If you like strange, dark humor and can sit through a lot of boredom to get there, you might like it about as middling as I do. Most people won't be able to put up with it that long, though.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net

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Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Beyond its shapeless sense of the future, humdrum story and fairly routine plot mechanics . . . this flick mostly recycles old action-movie parts.

April 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

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Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

It takes itself far too seriously when it should be having more fun with its speculative (high) concepts.

April 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Total Film

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Tony Horkins

Total Film

One of the worst endings of any film, ever. Seriously. Ever.

April 21, 2010 Comments (6)

Matt Bochenski

Little White Lies

The plot becomes predictable before an ending that appears to have been borrowed from Terry Gilliam's Brazil. Never as cool or clever as it would like to think.

April 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Express

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Henry Fitzherbert

Daily Express

The film bounces from knockaround black comedy to gruesome action film to not-quite-clever-enough sci-fi mindbender, without ever establishing a consistent tone or a style that works.

April 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Scotsman

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Scotsman

Great stuff at first, but when Law grows a conscience and goes underground with the uninsured, the narrative excitement slumps.

April 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

As an example of how not to make a movie, Repo Men deserves to be studied by film students.

April 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK]

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David Edwards

Daily Mirror [UK]

Just as you're settling down, convinced the film knows what it's doing, it takes a complete wrong turn. It separates Law and Whitaker, who were on form and had great chemistry, and gives the film a romantic sub plot instead.

April 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Sun Online

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Alex Zane

Sun Online

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Working for a mysterious, nefarious organization, two men collect organs on lease in the near future.Released in 2010, after the latest financial meltdown ravaged the U.S. economy, Repo Men is a satire clearly aimed at American big business, equating their greedy foreclosures with stealing people's lifeblood. It's

April 27, 2012

Jim Hunter

Super Reviewer

The RZA was pretty cool...I guess. The acting by Jude Law and Forrest Whitaker can't stop the terrible mess this film becomes in its 2nd half. The ending is like Brazil, a deus machina, but fails flat. Overall, the only outstanding positive part would be the gore and action which shows that you don't mess with the organ business.

December 19, 2011

paul oh

Super Reviewer

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1. Remy: At the end, a job is not just a job, is who you are, and if wanna change who you are, you have to change what you do...
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1. Remy: He'll sign it. Everybody signs it.
– Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)
1. Frank: You owe it to your family. You owe it to yourself.
– Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

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