Repo Men

The Union, you see, employs a repossession team - repo men, if you will - that pays a visit to those who fall far behind on their payments & reclaim the company hardware. It is an ugly business, but hey, it is a living.

Not to worry. There's plenty of replacements to be had, thanks to the Union, an outfit that sells livers & kidneys & such. The downside is, a lot of desperate people have bad credit, spending over they can afford (perhaps it is not a distant future). & that is a problem.

It is an intriguing premise, one director Miguel Sapochnik treats with all the subtlety of a head smashed in with a typewriter. Hey wait - that happens!

As does so much more. If you have ever wanted to see actors of the caliber of Jude Law, Forest Whitaker & Liev Schreiber in a brutally violent film soaked in blood & gore, this is your dream movie.

Law plays Remy, a repo man partnered with Jake (Whitaker). They are a formidable team whose motto is "A job's a job." It doesn't matter who the client is, in other words. Gee, wonder if that will come back to haunt them?

Remy & Jake work for Frank (Schreiber), the unfeeling brains of the operation. He doesn't require clients paying in full; the Union doesn't make money that way. Better to drag as plenty of payments out of somebody as they can, before (literally) ripping his lungs out when he no longer can afford them.