Repo Men (2010)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 146
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 114
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: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 24
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
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Cast
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Jude Law
Remy -
Forest Whitaker
Jake -
Alice Braga
Beth -
Liev Schreiber
Frank -
Carice van Houten
Carol -
Chandler Canterbury
Peter -
Joe Pingue
Ray -
Liza Lapira
Alva -
Tiffany Espensen
Little Alva -
Yvette Nicole Brown
Rhodesia -
RZA
T-Bone -
Wayne Ward
John -
Tanya Clarke
Hooker -
Max Turnbull
Larry the Lung -
Howard Hoover
Salesman -
Robert Dodds
Salesman -
Raff Law
Young Remy -
Tremayne Corion
Young Jake -
Marty Adams
Obese Man -
Daniel Kash
Chipped Tooth -
Christian Lloyd
Addict -
Dominic Cuzzocrea
Cabbie -
Carlos Diaz
Cab Passenger -
Imali Perera
Q Nurse -
Tannis Burnett
Hallway Nurse -
Michael Cram
Father -
Heather Hodgson
Remy's Female Customer -
Bruce Gooch
Remy's Male Customer -
Laytrel McMullen
Jump Rope Girl -
Ellie Ellwand
Jump Rope Girl -
Alie Rutty
Jump Rope Girl -
Kenny Robinson
Gruff Repo Man -
Jim Annan
TSA Guard -
Alice Poon
TSA Agent -
Simon Northwood
TSA Agent -
Wayne Downer
TSA Agent -
Neil Whitely
Passenger -
Marium Carvell
Passenger -
Daniel Levesque
Curious Man -
Michael Grajewski
Repo Trainee -
Zoe Mugford
Technician -
Philip Nessel
Sick Father -
Roland Rothchild
Guard -
Denis Akiyama
Doctor -
Katie Bergin
Woman in Bathroom -
Jee-Yun Lee
Newswoman -
Tino Monte
Newsman -
John Picard
Raggedy Dude -
Kevin Rushton
Artiforg Arm -
Alicia Turner
Repo Woman -
Ciara Jones
Subway Girl -
Riley Jones
Young Debtor -
Angelina Assereto
Bikini Girl -
Matt Baram
Doctor
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All Critics (146) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (115) | DVD (2)
This was too long, mean, and gory for me, though the satirical gloss and well-executed trick ending will probably impress some.
Top CriticBetter and smarter than you might expect.
The overused homages and a tacked-on twist ending are just failed attempts to save Repo Men from its own shallow blood lust.
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.
There are plenty of moments when the appearance of a flying, green-glow Chevy Malibu would be a welcome distraction.
Alternately smirking and dully disgusting.
Although it's an interesting premise, its lack of originality gives away where much of the film is going to go, that is, right up until you get to the unexpectedly bad ending.
I've seen a lot of this dystopian future in science fiction... so much so that it's become cliche.
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.
Enthusiastic stealing from other movies is great if I can feel the enthusiasm. I couldn't.
Sapochnik is completely unable to create suspension of disbelief, at least with the preposterous plot he had to work with.
'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.
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.
If only Sapochnik and Garcia had stuck more to their ideas than their guns, they'd really have something.
A paranoid fantasy of what's over the horizon if the macabre rumors about the Obamacare death panels are true.
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.
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.
Beyond its shapeless sense of the future, humdrum story and fairly routine plot mechanics . . . this flick mostly recycles old action-movie parts.
It takes itself far too seriously when it should be having more fun with its speculative (high) concepts.
One of the worst endings of any film, ever. Seriously. Ever.
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.
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.
Great stuff at first, but when Law grows a conscience and goes underground with the uninsured, the narrative excitement slumps.
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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 clever, and the novel on which this film is based probably works better, but as a film, the exposition is entirely too long. Also, the characters degrade into gangster film cliches. Remy has the disapproving wife and innocent child, and he eventually grows a conscience about his work (but seems to have no problem with the blood-letting of his former co-workers), and Jake is as gung-ho as ever. We've seen these characters in many genres, and the concept doesn't do enough to set them apart.
Other reviewers have revealed that there's a twist ending, so I'm able to say that I liked it without giving it away.
Overall, there's a lot to like about the concept and the story here, but the characters remain types, not unique or fleshed-out people.
Super Reviewer
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- Remy: Who do you think he's gonna send after me?
- Jake: Maybe me.
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- 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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- Remy: He'll sign it. Everybody signs it.
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- Frank: You owe it to your family. You owe it to yourself.
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