Did It Suck Movie Reviews

Review     2 Stars     Rated:     R

You can’t afford to die, but can you afford to live?  Ask yourself this before buying an artificial organ, because if you default on the payment the Repo Men will be coming for you.

Plot: Jude Law plays Remy, the best organ repo man in the business.  That is until an accident causes him to be fitted with an artificial heart and he realises it’s not the job for him anymore.  However, their motto of ‘a job is just a job’ comes back to haunt him when he falls behind on his payments and his former friends come looking for him.  If you’ve seen Logan’s Run you will likely recognise similarities in the plot.

Did It Suck? The movie is set in the near future, and while the ‘city’ effects were quite impressive they’ve all been done before, particularly in Blade Runner.  The characters spent a lot of time moving between high-tech offices in the city to run down slums and it just didn’t really mesh well.  The story was easy to follow and there was a good twist at the end (but no spoilers).  Due to the nature of the movie’s subject it is quite dark and foreboding, and much of the humour was the same.  There are some very gory parts but as with many gory movies they become darkly humorous because of it.

I didn’t feel that the acting was anything special, no one stood out, and everyone just seemed to be plodding along with little feeling for their characters.  This, combined with there being nothing else that really stands out in the movie, mean that while I did enjoy it I can only really suggest that you wait for it to come to TV, you certainly won’t miss anything on the big screen and I don’t really think it’s worth renting either, unless you especially want to see people getting cut open.  Final verdict … Don’t Bother.

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-Andy Hughes

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