**1/2 – This thinly veiled commentary on American consumer culture, corporate domination and health care malfeasance has a concept with some legs beneath it, but fails to maintain enough entertainment value to make it a very good picture. It’s the not-too-distant future and a gigantic conglomerate controls the manufacture, sale and surgical insertion/extraction of the artificial organs and body part replacements that have become nearly ubiquitous amongst the populace. They’re own force of hired goon ‘repo men’ go around maiming, killing and recovering organs from people who are unable to pay the exorbitant fees that are charged for things like new livers, hearts, kidneys, extremity joints and sensory organ enhancements. There seems to be little or no actual law enforcement or governmental control, which struck as odd while watching the repo men run rampant through the streets. Jude Law is one of these repo men who has a change of heart (both literally and figuratively) and goes on the lam while being hunted down by Forest Whitaker and Liev Schreiber. This movie had a lot of what I felt was unnecessary gore and also featured a pretty cheeseball ending that was fairly predictable given that it is frequently hinted at clumsily during the earlier stages of the film. It’s an okay flick, but I certainly don’t have any plans to add this one to my own DVD library.
Repo Men
**1/2 – This thinly veiled commentary on American consumer culture, corporate domination and health care malfeasance has a concept with some legs beneath it, but fails to maintain enough entertainment value to make it a very good picture. It’s the not-too-distant future and a gigantic conglomerate controls the manufacture, sale and surgical insertion/extraction of the artificial organs and body part replacements that have become nearly ubiquitous amongst the populace. They’re own force of hired goon ‘repo men’ go around maiming, killing and recovering organs from people who are unable to pay the exorbitant fees that are charged for things like new livers, hearts, kidneys, extremity joints and sensory organ enhancements. There seems to be little or no actual law enforcement or governmental control, which struck as odd while watching the repo men run rampant through the streets. Jude Law is one of these repo men who has a change of heart (both literally and figuratively) and goes on the lam while being hunted down by Forest Whitaker and Liev Schreiber. This movie had a lot of what I felt was unnecessary gore and also featured a pretty cheeseball ending that was fairly predictable given that it is frequently hinted at clumsily during the earlier stages of the film. It’s an okay flick, but I certainly don’t have any plans to add this one to my own DVD library.
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