There is no delicate way to begin the reviewing of ‘Repo Men” starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. So, I’ll just come out and say it. “Repo Men” is the weirdest movie I have ever seen…and I have seen a lot of weird stuff over the years. With that being said, I will say that weird is not always a bad thing and in this case, it bodes well for the flick.

Remy (Law) and Jake(Whitaker) are two of The Unions’ top repo men commanded by the obtuse salesman and manager Frank played by Liev Schreiber. “What do they repo?” you may ask. Not cars. Not houses. Nope. Too boring! What they repo is a little more complicated than that. If you borrow from The Union, you WILL be paying them back – one way or another. However, the manner in which you pay is with everything minus your soul. Livers, kidneys, lungs, even your heart. Thaaaaat’s right, The Union is in the business of organ and body part transplant. The entire world is in The Union’s grasp and when they say “jump”, uh, make that “kill”, the repo men kill and take the organ right back. These are not just any organs. These are state of the art, stainless steel organs that can be recycled and used over and over again. Hence the cash cow.

As the proverbial lights dimmed, the sound swelled and the screen came alive, I was immediately smashed in the faced with gruesome violence. Remy and Jake are taking body parts - not some little girl’s doll-y. So you get to see what I imagine could happen in the black market in today’s world: some muscle man coming into a house with a scalpel and a smile. Even though there was this crazy, over-the-top bloodshed which reminded me a bit of “Kill Bill Vol. 1” meets the surgical shows you see on cable, I was not put off by it. Rather I was sucked into the plot and was quite intrigued by the underlying themes the writers are posing to the audience.

The backdrop that was in this sci-fi, not-so-distant futuristic world kept me questioning, “When and where are they?” I think that was part of the plan. “Repo Men” is definitely a film to get you thinking and reflecting on our own society, in its own unique and distorted way. Acting was solid, and I kept thinking back to the first time I ever saw Forest Whitaker in a movie, “Good Morning Vietnam” and how innocent and childlike he was in that film and comparing it to this cold-blooded killer he had become in “Repo Man”. It was a startling contrast. Directing styles were also a bit colorful. It seemed to have an element of Guy Ritchie meets Stanly Kubrick. It was sci-fi with a ton of quirks and twists.

I loved that this was truly an original film. Again, this was the weirdest film I have ever seen and no matter how much I write, you will have to just see it. Beware: it was hard to stomach at times; however, it was a breath of fresh air compared to most of the stereotypical and predictable attempts at a good science fiction story. Sure there were your usual cat and mouse components, but overall it was as bizarre and disparate as a film is going to get without losing its plot in the process. I give it 4.5 knock-outs out of five.