Just Watched: Repo Men
Repo Men I so wanted to like this movie. Forest Whitaker is one of my favorite actors and the premise of human organ repossession seems like something meaty enough to build a good movie around. I don't know what happened but the end result isn't good. The first 30 minutes of the movie are promising. It's basically a montage of cold-blooded organ repossessions performed with a steely detachment by repo partners Whitaker and Law, justified with the oft repeated "A job is just a job". It seemed like the perfect setup for exploring the dark side of our profit driven corporate culture and the timely issue of predatory lending practices. For some damn reason though they chose to ignore any of the more interesting political implications of their setup and decided to just make a chase movie. This starts when Law's character has an accident that requires he get an artificial heart and, when he is no longer able to afford it, the evil corporation sends h