Repo Men D+

Repo Men is what happens when you take a pretty dumb idea to begin with and simply repeat it over and over and over again over the course of nearly two hours. The setting is the near future, and the old organ donor lists are a thing of the past. Instead developments in technology have led to a private company supplying sick people with artificial hearts, lungs, kidneys, ears and whatever other body part that might go on the fritz. But if you fall behind on the payments, then you'll see a Repo Man like Jude Law come to your house to reclaim the company's property.

So we get a lot of scenes with Jude Law and his partner Forest Whitaker breaking into people's homes so they can cut out their livers right there on the spot while the victim screams in agony and blood spatters everywhere. Whitaker even does a quickie in a taxi in the middle of a family barbeque.

Sprinkled throughout are some flashes of dark humor that suggest the movie that might have been. The organ company has a retail store in the mall with a guy in a dancing lung costume. But the film never finds a second beat beyond the initial monty python esque "excuse me can we have your liver" scenes. Instead it degenerates into a ridiculous series of chases that culminates in a bizarre misguided sex/surgery scene where Law and his lover on the run perform open heart surgery on each other to wipe their names out of the company's system. Lots of far more interesting threads are left dangling or just dropped altogether in favor of the more conventional action scenes. Jude Law won some goodwill back with his fine work with Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes. But this film suggests he's back to his old ways of forgettable mediocrities.