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This was too long, mean, and gory for me, though the satirical gloss and well-executed trick ending will probably impress some.
Better 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.
Alternately smirking and dully disgusting.
Repo Men, rough though it is, is disturbing enough, funny enough and shocking enough to work on some weird level.
As a recession-era satire, Repo Men strikes a very bitter chord.
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.
As an example of how not to make a movie, Repo Men deserves to be studied by film students.
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.
Served up in a high-concept soup, Repo Men's morally dubious characters and divisive splatter elements will certainly sour the tastes of some viewers.
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