Human lives have been extended and improved through highly-sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union.
These devices are expensive. If recipients don't pay their bills, The Union sends its highly-skilled repo men to take back the property with no concern for the patient's comfort or survival.
Remy is one of the best organ repo men in the business. Struggling with his chosen profession, Remy (Jude Law) sees life deteriorate before his eyes. His wife is unhappy with his trade and strongly urges him to take a desk job instead, but it truly doesn't suit him or his partner Jake (Forest Whitaker).
Both are Repo Men, and Jake feels theirs is a lifelong endeavor.
When Remy suffers cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself
fitted with the company's top-of-the-line heart replacement and a hefty debt. A
side effect of the procedure is Jake's heart is no longer in the job.
When he can't make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, former partner, Jake*, to track him down. Now that the hunter has become the hunted, Remy joins Beth, another debtor, who teaches him how to vanish from the system. And as he and Jake embark on a chase across a landscape populated by maniacal friends and foes, one man will become a reluctant champion for thousands on the run.
Had this idea been developed a bit better, along with a little more background about the characters, the movie might have turned out a lot better. Another factor working against it is an ill-conceived and poorly-illustrated twist following what we think is a victory for Remy and Beth.
"Repo Men" is mostly about the splatter of blood against the wall and a knife through a guy's throat, about street fights and repeated, graphic and often agonizing scenes of knives slowly cutting into flesh.
Give Alice Braga credit. When Jude Law reaches into her stomach cavity to look for artificial organs, the expression on her face will make you will believe that the anesthetic is definitely not working. But at that point, the audience will be in pain, as well.
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