![]() ![]() ![]() The twist comes when Remy (Jude Law), one of The Union's best repo men, suffers cardiac failure on the job and, thereby awakens with a new gizmo for a heart and a huge debt to pay. The downside lies in the fine print that tells patients that if payments aren't made, hotshot repo men are sent to cut them open and yank out the bionic organ. A corporation called The Union manufactures technologically sophisticated artificial organs, or "artiforgs" marketed and sold to gullible customers at exorbitant prices. Repo Men introduces us to the future with a news voiceover montage of how things came to be: global recession, fifth stage of war in Nigeria, technological breakthroughs. Like Saw VI, this film provides commentary (albeit only at surface level) on the current health care debate. Sharing nothing in common with Alex Cox's 1984 punk-rock-crazy Repo Man yet more aligned with Darren Lynn Bousman's 2008 film Repo!: The Genetic Opera, this Repo Men has some wit, violence and gore, but also some problems. ![]()
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