I'm laughing just reading this. Mark it a must-see. On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:27 AM, brent wodehouse < brent_wodeho...@thefence.us> wrote:
> > > http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Reviews/R/Repo_Men/2010/03/18/13275526.html > > ‘Repo Men’ bloody but funny > > By LIZ BRAUN, QMI Agency > > Here in the future, you can have any body part replaced with a man-made > gizmo. There’s no waiting list and no hoping someone will die for the > organ you need to be donated - it’s all man-made, it’s all available and > it’s just a matter of paying for it. > > Ah - paying for it. There’s the rub. > > Repo Men is a bloody, violent and blackly funny movie about the men who > turn up to reclaim your organs if you don’t pay the bill. Armed with large > knives and sanitary plastic suits to keep the blood off their clothes, > these guys taser you, open you up, remove your high-tech heart or liver > and take it back to headquarters to collect the bounty. You? You die > quietly. > > Jude Law and Forest Whitaker star in Repo Men as a tag team of > organ-retrieval specialists. There’s no case too tough for these two, and > they spend their working days seeking out those who can’t pay the bill and > snatching back the debt-causing organ. Neither man flinches at removing > anything from anybody, and they trade quips as they go. They have no > sympathy. Slice, dice, yank out kidney, move on. Yerghh. > > It’s all in a wildly bloody day’s work. > > Then Law’s character has an accident at work and requires a heart > transplant. Funny thing is, once he has a newfangled organ, he just > doesn’t have the, well, heart to do his job any more. He can’t bring > himself to stun people and rip out their unpaid-for organs. Furthermore, > he can no more afford payments on his own new heart than fly to the moon, > so in a matter of months he’s in the same position as his former prey: > Running for his life from repo men. For company, he’s on the run with a > jazz singer (Alicia Braga), a woman who is almost completely man-made. > She’s got custom lungs, liver, kidney, knees, you name it. > > What it takes to bring Repo Men to a close is plenty of running, hiding > and fighting, and in scenes that are a bit like Blade Runner if it had > been a slasher film. There is so much cartoonish bloodletting here - > involving guns, knives, hacksaws, axes, mallets and hammers - that after a > while becomes a spurting blur of opening arteries and severed limbs. > > The movie, which gets really bogged down in unlikely events (such as > romance) in the third act, has a nifty ending that makes up for a lot that > came before it. There’s no denying, however, that the movie is too long > and too short on story. > > Repo Men is full of bad language, bad behaviour and really over-the-top > violence, but it can still make you laugh out loud on several occasions. > It’s a subversive little outing with a terrific soundtrack and a > ‘do-unto-others’ moral, and it might appeal - just a hunch - to a young > male audience. > > (This film is rated 18A) > > liz.br...@sunmedia.ca <liz.braun%40sunmedia.ca> > > >
