Repo Men (Miguel Sapochnik, 2010)

Dear oh dear. It's not that you'd expect Jude Law to have the sense to avoid generic dystopian sci-fi product, but decent actor Forest Whitaker's decision to take part makes you wonder whether his appearance in Battlefield Earth was actually deadly earnest. Repo Men is assembled in a workmanlike fashion, and that's about all. Having the characters watch the Monty Python organ donor sketch at one point is a shoddy excuse for making a whole unfunny film out of it, with legally sanctioned agents murdering members of the public who have received organs and then defaulted on their payments. It tries charmlessly and cynically to have a foot in both the black humour and political critique camps, while pandering to aficionados of gratuitous blood and guts. The pace is Michael Bay, the principal characters have no chemistry at all, their motivations and Damascene conversions embarrassingly nonsensical, the imaging of the future is straight off the shelf and the script is similarly wholly devoid of original thought and logic. The final insult is added when the writers go back to the scene of their theft from the Python camp to steal the entire ending of Brazil. Even Equilibrium was better than this, and Lord knows that was shit.

2/10