(putting it down again on my must-see list, wondering when this slice of SF will become trenchant reality [?][?])
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Kelwyn <ravena...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Three words: organ-retrieval specialists. > > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com <scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com>, "brent > wodehouse" <brent_wodeho...@...> 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...@... > > > > >
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