By
Summer Rogers
Published: March 16, 2010
“Can’t pay for your house? The bank takes it. Can’t pay for your car? The bank takes it. Can’t pay for your liver? Well, that’s where I come in,” says Remy, a repo man for “The Union.”
The year is 2029 and people no longer have to wait on a transplant list to obtain organs because science has created artificial organs. A company called The Union sells the organs, the way that Starbucks sells you a cup of coffee.
However, if you can’t pay for the coffee, baristas don’t come after you in the middle of the night and reclaim it. If payments are four months late, The Union sends repo men to collect the organs, by any bloody means possible.
After a repo-gone-wrong, Remy (Jude Law, Sherlock Holmes), ends up with an artificial heart and no longer has the ‘heart’ to slice people open. Remy’s best friend Jake (Forrest Whitaker, Our Family Wedding) thinks he’s just in a slump and will get back on his feet in no time, but that’s not the case, and Remy falls behind on his payments.
The film is an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride and even has some humorous moments. It is also graphic and has plenty of blood and gore to boot, so if you have a queasy stomach, I would advise skipping this film (perhaps see The Bounty Hunter instead).
The movie is pure entertainment and should be viewed as such, because in some parts of the movie the situations seem a bit unrealistic. In one scene, Remy takes on about 10 corporate types in suits armed with knives, using a saw, knives and a hay hook. Unrealistic, yes. But fun and entertaining as hell.
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Did we see the same movie?
I just came from an advance preview of the film and I have to say it’s one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. After the screening, there was no applause. People laughed.
The story is deadly dull and has been done better elsewhere and far too often. Whittaker and Law (two actors whose work I really enjoy) have zero chemistry in this film. The story is unrealistic and ultimately pointless with the ol’ twist ending.
Bottom line: bad sci-fi, poorly executed.
i just caught an advance screening yesterday. the movie overall wasnt the greatest. the fight scenes were fun to watch and the little bits of humor here and there did get me to chuckle. however, the movie doesnt do much in the way of developing the plot and is more a movie you watch for the fight scenes and action sequnces rather than worrying about what is actually going on
Andrew says:
March 17, 2010 at 1:26 am
Did we see the same movie?
I just came from an advance preview of the film and I have to say it’s one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. After the screening, there was no applause. People laughed.
The story is deadly dull and has been done better elsewhere and far too often. Whittaker and Law (two actors whose work I really enjoy) have zero chemistry in this film. The story is unrealistic and ultimately pointless with the ol’ twist ending.
Bottom line: bad sci-fi, poorly executed.
The above is a ‘PUFF’ trying to be a critic. what an aSSpiration.
Worst movie ever… Absolute unrealistic… a ‘organ hunter’ who kill for just being behind of the payments. In this technical world other solution were at hand!
Then the plot is dissapointing too. In the end it returns to a scene, just 30 min ago, but then he gets a artifical brain, so the complete 30 min after that story, you don’t know its has been real. So the movie contradicts itselfs completely in a very worse set.
Waste of money!
Jude Law is so damn handsome, every man wishes to be like him.~*;