The Unseen Costs of Bankruptcy

Dedicated watchers of movie trailers, and extremely dedicated watchers of movies, will wonder how the makers of the upcoming film Repo Men saw the role of their movie in relation to 2008's bizarre Repo: The Genetic Opera. In both movies, which are set in the not-too-distant future, people's expensive artificial organs are "repossessed" due to nonpayment. I have not exaggerated this similarity in any way. Want proof? Watch the trailer for Repo: The Genetic Opera here, and the trailer for Repo Men here. This reviewer doesn't feel equipped to address The Genetic Opera today, so today's subject is Repo Men. The chief impression given by the trailer for Repo Men, beyond that its twist is identical to that of The Genetic Opera, is that its plot is otherwise identical to that of Equilibrium, an under-appreciated sci-fi semiclassic about an enforcer of repression and seemingly invincible master of Gun-based martial arts who turns against the government in the name of something or other and ends up facing off against his seemingly invincible partner. Repo Men appears to be about of a seemingly invincible master of organ repossession who rebels against the organ repossession company he once served, once an artificial heart shows him the error of his ways, and has to face off against his seemingly invincible partner. All that said about the precedent for its plot, Repo Men is a generic, snappy trailer with some clever moments. The bulk of the trailer is a normal sequence of shots of fighting and snatches of dialogue, with some more exotic shots of organ retrieval, Personally, I love the shot at the end of the trailer where Jude Law draws two knives at once--it seems likely that some production assistant hunted for weeks to find such perfectly shaped weapons. Here's hoping that the movie is snappy and uses its concept as something more than an action-starter.