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Repo Men

  • 2010
  • 16
  • 1h 51m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
110K
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Jude Law and Forest Whitaker in Repo Men (2010)
Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.
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Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the ru... Read allSet in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.

  • Director
    • Miguel Sapochnik
  • Writers
    • Eric Garcia
    • Garrett Lerner
  • Stars
    • Jude Law
    • Forest Whitaker
    • Alice Braga
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    110K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Miguel Sapochnik
    • Writers
      • Eric Garcia
      • Garrett Lerner
    • Stars
      • Jude Law
      • Forest Whitaker
      • Alice Braga
    • 224User reviews
    • 191Critic reviews
    • 32Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

    Videos11

    Repo Men: Trailer #1
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    Repo Men: International Green Band Trailer
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    Repo Men: International Red Band Trailer
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    Repo Men: Beth Tells Remy What Artiforgs She Has
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    Repo Men: Jake Explains To Remy That Rules Keep The World Together
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    Watch Repo Men: Jake Explains To Remy That Rules Keep The World Together
    Repo Men: Remy And Beth Attack The Airport Cops And Run Into Jake
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    Repo Men: Remy Gives His Reclaimed Artiforgs To Frank
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    Repo Men: Frank Is Selling A Customer An Artificial Pancreas
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    Watch Repo Men: Frank Is Selling A Customer An Artificial Pancreas
    Repo Men: Jake Chastises Remy For Coming To His Aid
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    Repo Men: Remy Is Attacked By A Woman While Reclaiming An Organ
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    Watch Repo Men: Remy Is Attacked By A Woman While Reclaiming An Organ
    'Creed II' Cast on Knockout Soundtracks and Inspiring Scenes
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    Jude Law and Alice Braga in Repo Men (2010)
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    Jude Law and Forest Whitaker in Repo Men (2010)
    Jude Law in Repo Men (2010)
    Jude Law and Forest Whitaker in Repo Men (2010)
    Jude Law and Alice Braga in Repo Men (2010)
    Jude Law and Forest Whitaker in Repo Men (2010)
    Jude Law in Repo Men (2010)
    Jude Law and Forest Whitaker in Repo Men (2010)
    Jude Law, Alice Braga, and Miguel Sapochnik in Repo Men (2010)

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    Jude Law
    Jude Law
    • Remy
    Forest Whitaker
    Forest Whitaker
    • Jake
    Alice Braga
    Alice Braga
    • Beth
    Liev Schreiber
    Liev Schreiber
    • Frank
    Carice van Houten
    Carice van Houten
    • Carol
    Chandler Canterbury
    Chandler Canterbury
    • Peter
    Joe Pingue
    Joe Pingue
    • Ray
    Liza Lapira
    Liza Lapira
    • Alva
    Tiffany Espensen
    Tiffany Espensen
    • Little Alva
    Yvette Nicole Brown
    Yvette Nicole Brown
    • Rhodesia
    RZA
    RZA
    • T-Bone
    Wayne Ward
    • John
    Tanya Clarke
    Tanya Clarke
    • Hooker
    Max Turnbull
    • Larry the Lung
    Howard Hoover
    • Salesman
    Robert Dodds
    • Salesman
    Rafferty Law
    Rafferty Law
    • Young Remy
    • (as Raff Law)
    Tremayne Corion
    • Young Jake
    • Director
      • Miguel Sapochnik
    • Writers
      • Eric Garcia
      • Garrett Lerner
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Moments before the filming of the Chinatown scene a crew member was approached by a local Chinese person who pointed out to him that all the neon signs with Chinese characters were upside down. A frantic rigging crew proceeded to flip all the signs while the shooting crew shot in the direction of the newly flipped signs.
    • Goofs
      When Jake and Remy fight in the derelict apartment and Remy wins, he is wearing street clothes. But when, at the end of the film, he is shown on the stretcher attached to the Neural Network machine after, in reality, losing this fight with Jake, he is wearing the combat clothing that he wore in the Union headquarters building, which was when he was in a dream state.
    • Quotes

      Remy: At the end, a job is not just a job, is who you are, and if wanna change who you are, you have to change what you do...

    • Crazy credits
      An advertisement screen for The Union appears at the end of the closing credits.
    • Alternate versions
      The Unrated version released on home video contains ~10 minutes of additional/alternative footage.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Repo Men/The Bounty Hunter/The Runaways (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      Sway (Mucho Mambo)
      Written by Norman Gimbel, Pablo Beltrán Ruiz, Luis Demetrio (as Luis Demetrio Traconis Molina)

      Performed by Rosemary Clooney featuring Dámaso Pérez Prado (as Perez Prado) and His Orchestra

      Courtesy of The RCA Records Label

      By Arrangement with Sony Music Enterprises

    User reviews224

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    6/10
    A surprisingly vapid dystopian flick
    All in all, I found this movie quite a disappointment. I have a soft spot for sci-fi, and as several others have commented, Jude Law is a good reliable actor in sci-fi roles. But this movie seems awkwardly assembled, not quite thought-out, and a bit too proud of itself to be taken seriously. Throughout the film, at what seem to be important developmental points or even plot twists, there are one-liners tossed out with great sincerity, which in most cases either sound silly, pretentious, intellectually impoverished, or simply misplaced in this film. The first scene of the film, for instance, we are given a summarization of the 'Schroedinger's Cat' experiment, complete with some of the horrible logic underlying the film--- 'if something isn't definably dead or alive, then it must be both'. The fact that this statement shows a misunderstanding of both the scientific and philosophic merit of the experiment isn't the problem, because even incorrect junk science can be a good vehicle in a movie. The problem is that there's no reason to bring this up in the first place. the movie doesn't tackle whether things are dead or alive, whether being comprised of 'rented organs' is an crisis of existential definitions or what have you. The reference is just thrown in there to sound smart, to seem thoughtful, when the film is anything but. And this sort of pseudo intellectual posturing contaminates the movie.

    The whole film's pace feels quite forced, as well. Jude Law seems underutilized. One can't help but wonder if he got drunk for the majority of the shooting for this film. When his wife leaves him, there's almost no emotion in the scene. When twenty minutes later our hero has decided to dedicate his eternal love to a street girl he finds attractive, there's really no chemistry whatsoever--- but apparently the movie insists that there be a love interest, and so it's just thrown in there, pointlessly. Because even in this day and age, it's apparently impossible to propose a hero character without a token damsel in distress.

    Then there's the kind of gratuitous and uncomfortable 'surgical sex' scene. It's apparent that whoever choreographed it thought they were being clever, but the whole thing just seems like an attempt to force some sort of correlation between sex and surgical procedures that really just felt misplaced, and kind of heavy-handed. Granted, it has a purpose within the plot, but it's basically a slice of experimental film amid a sci-fi action flick, and like a lot of experiments, it fails.

    There are some positive points to the film. While Jude Law's acting is a disappointment, Forrest Whittaker delivers a solid role. The action scenes are quite good, and while the overbearing presence of music makes some of it feel like a weird music video, it's nonetheless well-choreographed fighting and slashing. Some of the sets are good, although a fair number of sets and sequences seem blatant rip-offs of 'Brazil' (to say nothing of the ending)...

    A pretty mindless flick. It's better than watching dust settle on your screen. A prettily-packaged emptiness.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • June 3, 2010 (Netherlands)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Canada
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Repossession Mambo
    • Filming locations
      • Lower Bay Station, Toronto, Ontario, Canada(subway station and subway train)
    • Production companies
      • Universal Pictures
      • Relativity Media
      • Bluegrass Films
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $32,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $13,794,835
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $6,126,170
      • Mar 21, 2010
    • Gross worldwide
      • $18,409,891
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 51 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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