Repo Men
Dir: Miguel Sapochnik
2010
****
I really liked Repo Men, it's part future shock (think Allen Moore in 2000AD back in the 80's) and part Philip K. Dick story with a little bit of Monty Python thrown in for good measure. It even shows the clip from 'Monty Python's The meaning of Life', where it seems the idea came from. It's well cast and well filmed considering the budget. There are so many scenes where they get it just right (sexual bar-code scanning anyone?), never shying away from showing a bit of blood or pretending that our hero isn't all 'nice guy'. It's much better than most of the big budget Sci-fi rubbish of 2010. I'm in the minority here but I loved the ending, that's classic sci-fi for you, if you don't like it it's because you like the hijacked rubbish version of the genre that Hollywood have been churning out. Ever-so slightly predictable at times but future cult classic for sure and an interesting comment on the American (and soon to be British) health-care system to boot.