Repo Men
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Repo Men |
| Original title | Repo Men |
| Country of production |
United States Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | Theatrical version: 111 minutes Unrated: 119 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Miguel Sapochnik |
| script |
Eric Garcia , Garrett Lerner |
| production | Scott Stuber |
| music | Marco Beltrami |
| camera | Enrique Chediak |
| cut | Richard Francis-Bruce |
| occupation | |
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Repo Men (based on the novel Repossession Mambo ) is an American science fiction - Thriller by Miguel Sapochnik with Jew Law and Forest Whitaker in the lead roles. The film opened in German cinemas on June 3, 2010.
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In 2025, The Union will dominate the organ transplants market , called ArtifOrgs (Artificial Organs). A potential customer can extend his life by buying new organs, usually on credit , at horrific monthly payments. However, those who cannot pay the installments for the seductive or vital high-tech organs will get a visit from the collectors who will remove the organs. Hardly any debtor survives the removal by these Repo Men , who are only legally obliged to ask the customer whether they should call an ambulance or drive the customer to an emergency room, which they usually only do pro forma after the victim has already been taken overwhelmed and passed out.
Remy is one of the best repo men in the Union. Together with his old school friend Jake, he looks after defaulting customers. Remy is considered a reliable employee in the Union, although his job endangers his relationship with his wife Carol, as she finds his job and the way in which he carries it out as repulsive: Remy sees nothing more than a credit on his in every customer Salary account. When Jake performs an organ harvest just outside the house during a party at Remy's house, Remy is abandoned by his wife. Remy then decides, to Jake's displeasure, to quit his job as repo man and instead work as a salesman for the Union.
His last job takes Remy to the house of a music producer who is one of his favorite producers and who has defaulted on his installment payments. Remy allows him to finish his last song before starting to remove the heart. The defibrillator , which was used to put the artificial heart out of operation, malfunctions and gives Remy an electric shock so that he falls into a coma . When Remy wakes up in the hospital, his supervisor (Frank) and Jake inform him that his heart has been damaged in the accident and that he has the choice of getting an artificial heart or death. After a failed attempt to leave the hospital, Remy agrees to the contract.
In the further course Remy can no longer pay the installments for his heart, because the "customers" from whom he is supposed to remove the high-tech organs are no longer nameless paychecks for him, but people with faces, which leads to him being his Can no longer pursue activity. Remy tries the sales department, but he turns out to be too emotionally involved to unscrupulously sell organs to customers. The time until the end of the payment period is getting closer and closer. His best friend and partner is trying to get him to do one more assignment so he can pay his installments. However, when he kneels in front of his client, he is unable to remove the organ and, being careless, is knocked down from behind. After he wakes up he hears a familiar voice singing. When he follows the voice, he finds the singer Beth, whom he saw for the first time in the Repo Men s regular bar, who is on a Q trip and is singing. The addictive drug called "Q" is used by people who have had many organs transplanted to relieve the pain associated with it.
He takes her to a motel and looks after her. Initially not happy about Remy's attempt to cure her Q addiction, Beth eventually falls in love with him. Remy is now on the other side of the Union system and then breaks into his old company and tries to delete Beth's ArtifOrgs and himself from the system. However, he is caught by his old partner.
After Remy is on the run with Beth, he too is hunted by the Union Repo Men. At first he can still kill his pursuers, but when his ex-partner Jake is put on him, he finds him and asks Remy to come with him. In the course of the conversation that ensued, Jake admits he tampered with the defibrillator that damaged Remy's heart in order to prevent Remy from moving to the sales department. He hadn't seen it coming, that it would lead Remy to identify with the customers. Then both fight with each other. Shortly before Remy is killed, his new girlfriend can incapacitate his opponent. Thereupon the two penetrate into the headquarters of the Union and destroy the central computer after a brutal final battle, so that in principle all customers of the Union are free.
Finally you see Remy and his ex-partner lying on the beach with Beth and are happy about their good life, which they owe, among other things, to a book that Remy wrote about the Union, the Reposession Mambo , a recursive reference to the script underlying book. Then picture disturbances run through the scenery and there is a fade back to the scene in which Remy is fighting with his ex-partner. In reality, he seriously injured him and Remy is in a coma. His ex-partner has bought the Union's latest product for him - a device that fakes coma patients into an artificial reality in pink clouds. The fate of the unconscious Beth remains uncertain.
Reviews
“At first glance, the film gives the impression of a solid science fiction thriller in which the action and humor are not neglected [...]. In fact, there are also some spanking and shooting scenes that delight the fan's heart. On the other hand, there are the unappetizing splatter recordings, which are likely to be far too harmless for the real Gore fan, but are definitely overwhelming for the average moviegoer. In a nutshell: 'Repo Men' is neither fish nor meat, wants to please everyone and fails. Something like that never works. "
“[…] As a parable for a capitalist system that bleeds the little man to death and literally walks over corpses, the sci-fi thriller based on the novel 'Repossession Mambo' may not go down elegantly, but it gets nailed on the head met. The idiosyncratic genre mix is rounded off by the eclectic soundtrack with songs ranging from RZA to Beck and Perez Prado. "
“The result is a confused mix that is increasingly difficult to understand in terms of both content and appearance. The dramaturgical deficiencies in the use of a third level, a dream sequence, which primarily serves to incorporate even more genre set pieces, instead of bringing the plot to a head, become abundantly clear. [...] The question arises what the film actually wants to be: a pastiche? A winking, cross-genre satire? Or an eschatological drama? Despite its weaknesses, “Repo Men” is not uninteresting. Rather, it is a curious hodgepodge of quotes and ideas, with a good camera and a sure sense of atmosphere. Editing and music are also coherent, sometimes even daring, and even the actors are in top form. More content and less form could have made 'Repo Men' a good contribution to the genre. "
Web links
- Repo Men in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website for Repo Men
- Repo Men at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions Theatrical Version - Unrated by Repo Men at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Repo Men . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 813 K).
- ^ Repo Men Do the Repossession Mambo
- ↑ Critique on cinema.de
- ↑ Criticism on kino.de
- ↑ Criticism on film-dienst.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
