Repo Men is
a sci-fi thriller movie, that happens on a near future, where people can buy
artificial organs on credit, and if they don’t pay on a period of 3 months, a
man will make a visit to the owner to take back the organ, and they don’t care
if the victim is alive, or are going to die during the process.
The movie
tells the story of Remy (Jude Law), a family man who has a nice house, lives in
a nice neighborhood and has a nice family. But his job isn’t this normal. He
works as a repo man for The Union, an industry that creates and sells
artificial organs to people. Remy and his best friend, Jake (Forest Whitaker)
are the best repo men of The Union. Neither seems to concern that their job
means that they are ‘legalized killers’. Everything was doing well, until
Remy’s accident, which forces him to accept a heart from The Union. A heart
that he can’t afford. Later, he sees himself running from his best friend in
order to survive. Don’t think that the film is just going to be like that. The
film does a 180° and changes everything. Remy goes to the underworld of the
repo society, and then he meets Beth (Alice Braga) an outlaw that is running
from the repo men. She helps him to survive the others repo men send by The
Union.
The plot of
the movie is quite original, but a little predictable. A man who wants to
change his job in order to spend more time with his family, but something goes
wrong and then he is forced to fight against his old friends in order to
survive and come back to his family. During the way he meets a woman that he
starts to like, they kiss each other and then she helps him to survive. But it is
still a very exciting film.
There are
many splatter gore scenes on the movie but, lots of humor either. The reason that
I enjoyed it is because of the plot, the fights, the funny parts and, of
course, because of Alice Braga. Although the other actors were quite good
either. Well, if you like action, gore and humor on a single movie, you’ll
enjoy Repo Men, like I did.