"How can anything be alive and dead at the same time?"
It is this endlessly duelling nature within Repo Men that lies at its heart and is probably the reason which critics have not liked it. It is a pure pulp sci-fi action movie straining to be something much deeper. Jude Law and Forest Whitaker provide one of the oddest cinematic pairings in recent memory, yet they play off each other effectively and as actors give performances way above those of the usual talent that this type of fare attracts. The film displays some excellent if inevitable Blade Runner-influenced dystopian visuals and design, yet it also displays the same ham-fisted voice-over which plagued the initial studio cut of that influential film. There is barely enough gore and action to satisfy genre fans, yet the leads play the more talky, philosophical sections like it is Shakespeare. Repo Men is a curious film, one which should not be overlooked entirely but which ultimately does not wholly satisfy.
It is this endlessly duelling nature within Repo Men that lies at its heart and is probably the reason which critics have not liked it. It is a pure pulp sci-fi action movie straining to be something much deeper. Jude Law and Forest Whitaker provide one of the oddest cinematic pairings in recent memory, yet they play off each other effectively and as actors give performances way above those of the usual talent that this type of fare attracts. The film displays some excellent if inevitable Blade Runner-influenced dystopian visuals and design, yet it also displays the same ham-fisted voice-over which plagued the initial studio cut of that influential film. There is barely enough gore and action to satisfy genre fans, yet the leads play the more talky, philosophical sections like it is Shakespeare. Repo Men is a curious film, one which should not be overlooked entirely but which ultimately does not wholly satisfy.
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