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Repo Men (2010)

Jude Law and Forest Whitaker star in this dystopian action film set in the near future. Medical companies have invented mechanical, artificial organs for people that need replacements but if you can not make the payments then your new organ gets reposed and you are left to die. When Jude Law ends having his own heart replaced and finds he is unable to stomach his job any more and misses his own payments so has to go on the run.

Ultimately this film does not work on a number of levels. As an action film the direction is pretty poor, there is a poor version of the hammer scene from Old Boy (2003) but all the action sequences are largely cut so quickly it is very hard to tell what is going on. The narrative is not very good either, the “twist” ending is a cheat rather than a twist and invalidates the last part of the film and the whole film itself could have been at least 20-30 minutes shorter by cutting some of the padding that fills out the first part of the film.

A poor effort in the end 2/5