Review – Repo Men

I’m a little surprised nobody has ever tried to remake Logan’s Run. Though this has a strong flavor of just such a project, technically it’s different enough to not count as such. In a Blade-Runner-redone-as-less-stylish future, the huge corporation that sells artificial organs (known by the awkward contraction “forgs”) is allowed to repossess them from people who don’t keep up with their payments. Jude Law and Forest Whitaker play the title characters, bad-asses who joke around about the dummies whose guts they rip out for a living. But then Law’s character is injured on the job and ends up with a forg heart. And to make matters worse, his newfound inability to kill people with delinquent payments robs him of his income and puts him in the same boat with them. From there the production goes downhill a bit, particularly the predictable “surprise” ending. However, it has an amusing moment or two, which is more than I figured it would have. Mildly amusing