Average Rating: 7.9/10
Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 38 | Rotten: 1
Repo Man is many things: an alien-invasion film, a punk-rock musical, a send-up of consumerism. One thing it isn't is boring.
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 0
Repo Man is many things: an alien-invasion film, a punk-rock musical, a send-up of consumerism. One thing it isn't is boring.
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A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
Mar 2, 1984 Wide
Aug 28, 2000
Universal Pictures
All Critics (39) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (1) | DVD (30)
Repo Man has the type of unerring energy that leaves audiences breathless and entertained.
Top CriticCox's style is a step beyond camp into a comedy of pure disgust; much of the film is churlishly unpleasant, but there's a core of genuine anger that gives the project an emotional validation lacking in the flabby American comedies of the early 80s.
Repo Man comes out of left field, has no big stars, didn't cost much, takes chances, dares to be unconventional, is funny, and works. There is a lesson here.
It's very entertaining, and though it's rude in an R-rated way, it has the good taste never to promise more than it can deliver.
a western [but] also a punk road movie, a conspiratorial cold-war chase caper, a paranoid apocalypse sci-fi, a postmodern mixed "plate of shrimp", a hilarious Eighties satire and a wry lowlife rejoinder to Reagan's upwardly mobile American dream.
Crammed with quotable, often gnomic one-liners, and set to an achingly cool soundtrack of hardcore punk, it's a movie with a disreputable, insolent charm.
Half-shaggy, half-annihilating vision of a junk culture
Defiant, antisocial 'tude in '80s punk sci-fi satire.
Fine, stylish debut from Alex Cox with some great turns from the two leads.
A cult film par excellance.
Wickedly funny, ceaselessly inventive, and never boring.
The punk/sci-fi film to beat.
A sci-fi thriller takes a wacky look at a particular LA subculture and a zany farce with lunatic characters, including a TV evangelist who preaches against "Godless Communism" abroad and liberal humanism at home.
There are endless things to enjoy, from Robby Müller's crisp camerawork to a superb set of performances, from witty movie parodies to a tremendous punk soundtrack.
It is going a bit far to call "Repo Man" a modern classic, but it is amongst the defining films of the decade.
Right up there with the 1980s cult classics like Heathers, Buckaroo Banzai, and Brazil.
Pure weirdo fun.
...the movie, more often than not, just comes off as strange for strangeness' sake.
Emilio and Cox topped out early with this dirty little postmodern classic.
Talk about cult films, this is probably the king of cults, the perfect example of a trashy low grade 80's punk film that incompasses everything from a weird B-movie plot to glorious displays of anarchy.Harry Dean Stanton riding high on his 'Alien' fame still chose to go with this which is curious but shows his respect
May 18, 2012Super Reviewer
This film can only be described as inexplicably awesome. Really, I can't think of any other way to describe it. I mean, here's the description this website has for the film: "A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures
May 19, 2011Super Reviewer
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