Repo Men (2010)

Repo Men (formerly known as Repossession Mambo) is a 2010 American science fiction action thriller directed by Miguel Sapochnik, and starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. It was released on March 19, 2010, having been moved up from an original release date of April 2, 2010.

Cast

• Jude Law as Remy, a repo man
• Forest Whitaker as Remy's former partner, Jake Freivald
• Carice Van Houten as Remy's current wife
• Alice Braga as Beth, a singer who has multiple artificial organs
• Liev Schreiber as Frank, Remy's chief
• Chandler Canterbury as Peter, Remy's son

Plot

In the future, The Union has perfected artificial organs which can be used to extend lives. These organs are sold on credit and, if the consumer cannot make payments, The Union sends out its Repo Men to take them back, with no regard for the well being or safety of the person with the organ.

Remy and Jake are partners working as repomen for The Union. Remy is highly regarded within The Union as their top performer. Jake knows this and seems very happy to be Remy's partner.

At home, Remy argues often with his wife about his chosen profession as she wants him to quit his job which he is considering. Jake knows this and will do anything to keep Remy working as his partner.

Jake rigs a "defib" unit (a heart defibrillator) to operate incorrectly and when Remy uses it he shocks himself and incites a heart attack. Remy wakes up in the hospital to find out he must decide whether to sign up for an organ of his own from The Union or die. Jake's plan is to have Remy as a partner indefinitely since he will owe The Union a great deal of money for the new heart.

Remy goes back to work but he cannot deny his feelings for the people he goes after because they are just like him. He quits his repoman job for an office job which he can't maintain. Without any income it is not long that The Union finds out Remy's account with them is in arrears and they send out a repoman for Remy's heart but Remy kills him. The job eventually gets assigned to his old partner Jake. A series of fights between the two break out throughout the city.

One of Remy's first customers he had to repo right after his heart surgery was a female lead singer for a bar band named Beth who had multiple organs transplanted into her. He couldn't do the job and extract the organs from her body and in turn, she joined him in his quest to remove them both from The Union's files of people like them.

Remy and Beth make it back to The Union's headquarters hoping to clear their accounts and show that their organs were "relocated". They get to the server room and successfully clear their accounts. They do this while Jake and Frank, the CEO of The Union, are outside trying to break in.

As they enter the room Remy is on top of Beth seemingly removing her organs from her body with blood everywhere while the computer is finishing up clearing their accounts. Jake and Frank assume the girl is dead and Frank pulls his gun out to kill Remy. As he does this Jake whips out a knife and stabs him in the throat. Jake hands Remy a needle and uses it to revive Beth which makes it appear as this was all preplanned. The three escape but not before Jake drops two explosives into The Union's computer which destroys all evidence of them.

The next scene shows the three on a beach somewhere enjoying themselves and right as it seems the movie might end a small glitch appears on the screen and voices are heard lightly in the background. The scene then changes to a time much earlier in the movie. The scene is when Remy was with Beth and Remy got hit over the head during his fight with Jake. The movie showed Remy surviving the hit and getting up but it now appears in reality he did not survive the strike to his head. Due to his situation The Union hooked Remy up to their new "product" which allows survivors of head traumas to enjoy life with neuro-stimulation and the second half of the movie was actually Remy's dream, which was of defeating The Union he came to hate and living happily ever after with his new love Beth and his partner Jake.

Production

In 2003, screenwriters Eric Garcia and Garrett Lerner began collaborating with Miguel Sapochnik on a screenplay based on a novel being written by Garcia. The novel, Repossession Mambo, was published March 31, 2009.

In June 2007, Universal Pictures cast Jude Law and Forest Whitaker into the film, which was Sapochnik's directorial debut. Production began in September 2007. Casting for this film was done by Mindy Marin, production design by David Sandefur, art direction by Dan Yarhi, set decoration by Clive Thomasson, and costume design by Caroline Harris. Filming took place in Toronto, and the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario.

The score to Repo Men was composed by Marco Beltrami, who recorded his score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox.

The film was promoted with a seven-minute comic released on Apple.com on March 15, 2010.

Reception

Critical response

The film received generally negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 22% of 89 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 4.1 out of 10. Among Rotten Tomatoes' "Top Critics", which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 15%, based on a sample of 20 reviews. The site's general consensus is that "Repo Men has an intriguing premise, as well as a likable pair of leads, but they're wasted on a rote screenplay, indifferent direction, and mind-numbing gore." Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 1–100 reviews from film critics, has a rating score of 32 based on 31 reviews.

Box office

Repo Men opened at #4 in its debut weekend with $6,126,170 in 2,521 theaters, averaging $2,430 per theater.

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