2 stars**
The idea of repossessing major organs when loans can’t be paid, is great, but the actual way this movie pans out ends up flying with disappointment. Many of us have been through the great ‘dream’ of Dallas or others and feel cheated when all we’ve watched is a dream. Live it again, here. It might be a late twist, but it doesn’t enhance the quality.
So what’s it all about?
In the future humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called “The Union”. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don’t pay your bill, “The Union” sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property… with no concern for your comfort or survival. Former soldier Remy is one of the best organ repo men in the business. When he suffers a cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself fitted with the company’s top-of-the-line heart-replacement… as well as a hefty debt. A side effect of the procedure is that his heart’s no longer in the job. When he can’t make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, Remy’s former partner Jake, to track him down.
Forest Whittaker is usually brilliant and he maintains that standard here. Jude law does well, it’s just that the screenplay withers a little and he’s been given the lines that shrivel the most.
The movie also loses a consistent level of violence. The blood splattered scenes towards the end of the movie are there for the blood junkies; the same scenes early in the movie are almost all blood or gore free. It could have stayed that way and been a better dependable movie. While experts say the directors and screenplay writers should ramp up the focus, the movie does that already without the extra blood and gore.
Perhaps they were hoping for the shock factor, but given the nature of the content anyway, the distress levels probably would be changed from any expectation.
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