Pay your bills to keep the Repo Men away.

Aight, I was actually looking forward to this movie. It was a movie that I truly knew nothing about, until someone completely explained it all to me. It was a purely innocent move, and I have no ill will what-so-ever. In fact, after hearing more about the flick, I was even more intrigued.

Repo Men is the story of a group of men who's day job is to repossess artificial organs from people who can no longer afford the payments on them. Unfortunately, one of the Repo Men has to get an artificial organ of his own and becomes the target of his own kind.

The flick starts off like an episode of Dexter. It basically gets to the point the way the opening credits of the show does. Of course Dexter is merely going through his morning routine and it is just made to look bad, but Repo Men goes right into the day job of these men. Lots of gore, lots of oooo's and ahhh's, but no one there to say "He went to Jared." My point is, if you have a weak stomach, you might want to check in your weak sauce at the gate.

Since that is out of the way, I would like to say I really enjoyed the acting. Jude Law and Forest Whitaker do a fantastic job together. They make Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan look like bitch rookies. Add in Liev Schreiber and you've got yourself a winning combination.

The story line is intriguing as well. Not so much the cliche, "I went from the hunter to the hunted," but the idea of artificial organs and repo men who come to get them. Because of this scenario, the movie is set in the future. I don't really think anyone could tell us what the future holds, except the physic on Collins St., but I think it was well designed and well received.

However, the great acting and the great story couldn't disguise how crappy the story telling is. The movie was done horribly. Nothing kills a story more than a shitty story teller. Not only that, but I found myself bored at several spots within the flick. And the fact that they chose elevator music as background doesn't really help the situation either. And some parts where real cheesy and predictable.

I can say this about the flick though... I loved the ending. This is more of a personal note. If you know me, I am sure you could understand why I loved this ending. If you don't, well.... you pretty much have no fucking idea. The ending alone made up a lot of ground for the flick in my opinion, which is pretty much what this whole thing is about.

I have to give this flick a one night stand out of a cherry pit (2 out of 5). But you should probably watch it just for the ending... and then hate me for it. ;)

Birddogger Out.