Repo Men (2010) 6/10

Starring : Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber
Director : Miguel Sapochnik
Running Time : 118 mins

In the year 2025 medical breakthroughs have made it possible for people to have damaged organs swapped out for mechanical ones to improve their way of life; the downside to this is that those people that can’t keep up with their medical bills may be faced with having their replacement organs repossessed. When one of these repo men, Remy (Law), is injured on the job he wakes up to find that his heart has been replaced and he now has a hefty bill that he cannot foot. He soon finds himself on the run, with his ex-partner Jake (Whitaker) being sent after him to reclaim the organ.

This movie plods along at an incredibly slow pace, and feels like it’s about to end at the ninety minute mark. The performances of leads Law and Whitaker are okay, it’s just that the story is a little soulless and there isn’t enough depth to the characters given to make them truly appealing and to make the audience sympathetic to their cause. A good script would have had us sympathising with both Law and Whitaker, whereas this script had me sympathising with no-one.

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