After all of the action in Sherlock Holmes it seems that Jude Law isn’t happy to return to his romantic comedy ways just yet, and that isn’t a bad thing. Repo men is set in the not too distant future where you will face deadly consequences for not keeping up with your debt repayments, thankfully for me we aren’t at this moment in the future as of yet because I would surely be missing a few of my body parts, just kidding of course.
Remy (Law) and Jake (Whitaker) are two repo men who work for a company called The Union. The union are a massive global company who have developed some advanced mechanical internal organs, unfortunately these advanced organs don’t come free on the NHS and they pack a hefty price tag. Not to worry though The Union offer very affordable price plans, but if for whatever reason you fall behind on your payments then you had better watch out, because the Repo Men will come for you and they will take back what is rightfully theirs.
As you may have worked out about now these repo men aren’t trained surgeons they are simply futuristic debt collectors, and we all know how friendly and skilled these people are.
Remy and Jake work together to take back the companies property however when an event leaves Remy for dead the company replace his heart with a new mechanical device, because of this Remy now knows what life is like on the other side of the fence, and because he also has a price to pay back o the union he begins to struggle with his job, this then means that he starts to fail to pay his repayments.
Remy decides that he isn’t going down without a fight and soon teams up with another transplanted victim who has learned to avoid capture.
Overall don’t expect too much of a story or deep character development because there practically isn’t any, however this isn’t a bad thing because this movie doesn’t pretend to be something that it is not, instead it is an all out action film sprinkled with blood and guts. Jude Law does surprisingly well to carry this movie and maybe a little bit of Robert Downey has rubbed off on him.
This fun action flick gets a cool 3 out of 5 stars.
