I was looking forward to this film as the idea of people repossessing organs is a great idea (and I didn’t want to see the previous musical which had the same premise), but boy do I wish we had stayed away. This movie is all around completely awful. It is shot well, but that is all it has. The premise is good, but the pacing is awful and the story is not good either, and every character is so unlikeable that you never care for anyone. And the twist at the end is laughable, because it doesn’t add anything and you just don’t care any which way. This must have been a good script to get this cast, but it sure was a waste with this director because this is such an awful film it should never have been released. It is utter crap.

In the near future a corporation called The Union has created artificial organs, but they do not make money by selling them, instead they make more money by selling them at exorbitant interest rates, and when they people go 90 days past due they “reposes” the organs, killing the patient and getting their property back. Remy (Jude Law) is a class 5 repressor, the best of the best, matched only by his best friend and former partner Jake (Forest Whitaker). They work for the slimy Frank (Liev Schreiber) and do their job very well. Remy’s wife Carol (Carice van Houten) wants Remy to move to sales, because she hates his job, and threatens to leave him, though their son does still love Remy. Jake isn’t happy about Remy wanting to leave, as they have been friends since they were kids, and were in a tank in war together. Carol says Remy must quit, but he and Jake find a tanker ship filled with people with past due organs and they go in and take many people including some who had jammers which made them seem normal, though they killed them anyway and took their hidden organs. Remy wants to quit anyway, but takes one last big job taking the heart of a record producer, but his defibrillator malfunctions and he wakes up the hospital after a heart transplant, which he doesn’t want, but he cannot kill anyone anymore, as he thinks of his own heart.

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Carol has kicked Remy out and he has to live with Jake, but he keeps lying as he can’t kill anyone anymore, and his 90 days quickly runs out.

Remy and Beth try to get out through the airport with Jammers after learning that it was Jake who sabotaged the defibrillator to keep him working.

Remy and Beth go to an abandoned section of town to try and make his money back, but he finds the singer Beth (Alice Braga) who he has liked her singing. Beth has almost everything replaced, and is not past due as well.

Remy and Beth try to go on the run. He sneaks into the Union to try and erase their accounts, but fails, and they run, but have Repo Men sent after them.

THey go to some Beth’s friends to get help with her organs, seeing Asbury (John LEguizamo) and Alva (Liza Lapiza), but Jake comes and smashes Remy’s head.

Beth gets him away and they get to a safe house that is attacked by Union men, but they make it out, leaving many corpses behind them. He knows they can’t escape, so he decides to go to the Union and destroy all the records. They must get through a pink door where the parts are finally checked in.

The pair must fight off a gaggle of business people who instead of guns all have knives and cleavers, and though badly wounded manage to lock themselves in the pink room using one of Beth’s mods to let them in the door.

Inside their is no computer, only a scanner, so they must scan their own parts. So she cuts into Remy and sticks her hand inside him and scans her heart. Then they must scan all of her parts, and as she lays bleeding and dyeing, Jake and Frank get in, having cut a part out of one of the business people and are going to kill them.

Jake has a change of heart and kills Frank, and then they put grenades into the central computer and escape.

We cut to them on the beach, with Remy having published his manuscript, and Jake and Beth are with him. Then we see a digital glitch (and this world was seen earlier as a screen behind the subway).

We cut to Remy when Jake hit his head. He caused brain damage, and Jake has had him wired up with a new brain and is paying for it with all the repo’s he has just done. He finds Beth, and tells the guys to leave her.

Jake finds Remy’s manuscript and watches as his friend is whealed away and we hear Frank’s sales pitch for the digital brains, which let your loved ones live in a dream world.

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THIS MOVIE SUCKED! AWFUL! SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN MADE! WHAT AN EXPENSIVE WASTE!!!