Repo Men

[Advocate]

This is not a remake. It is not related to the Alex Cox movie.

Repo Men is the film once called Reposession Mambo, which has been sitting on the shelf at Universal for a while. The movie has nothing to do with the Alex Cox classic Repo Man.
Instead it tells of a near future when human life spans have been greatly extended by expensive artificial organs created by a company called The Union. When people fail to make their payments for a fancy new liver or other piece of their gut, a team of surgical operatives are sent out to reclaim The Union’s property. The film follows two of these guys, played by Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. Check out the first red band trailer to see what’s in store.
I like Jude Law and love Forest Whitaker and Liev Schreiber, but despite the blood and guts this looks pretty routine. The actors have gone all in, no question, but there’s not a lot of verve on display in this trailer. I was hoping for more from the feature debut from Miguel Sapochnik. Maybe there’s a lot more to the movie than this suggests, but expectations are tempered for now.
Here’s the official synopsis:

In the futuristic action-thriller Repo Men, 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. Jude Law plays Remy, one of the best organ repo men in the business. But 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. But 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 (Academy Award® winner Forest Whitaker), to track him down.

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http://www.repomenarecoming.com/

youtube version:

[Despair]

Looks quite Awesome. Especially at the end of the trailer, as Law mowing though the guards with his weapons.

[Frogacuda]

This is not a remake. It is not related to the Alex Cox movie.

It is, however, being released under its present title as a cockblock by Universal to obscure Alex Cox's new sequel Repo Chick. Universal released the original Repo Man and tried to C&D Cox's new movie, and when he ignored them, they took a two year old movie that they didn't think was good enough to release then and retitled it.

Classy move, no?

[BerringerX]

So it's like Repo! The Genetic Oprea, just without the singing?

[YellerDog]

Seems that way...

[Anal Kaboom]

That's a pretty dick move by Universal, but this movie does look kinda cool.

[Frogacuda]

Looks like they're going to have to duke this one out in court. Alex Cox is crying breach of contract and promises details next month.

I have a feeling this is probably going to delay/create problems for both movies. They're kind of both in the wrong, since both movies are obviously trying to sell themselves on Repo Man, and neither parties have the right to do that without the other.

[Advocate]

New Movie posters.

[aren]

Really slow movie but picks up toward the end. It was decent, but nothing special.

I kinda figured the whole thing was a dream when it should him on the beach with the chick and his buddy, but at least it was towards the end.

The "twist" saved it from being a dull ass flick.

[Mr-K]

So the movie that reviews says Repo Men rips off but don't name is Brazil?