Repo Men 2010

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: This is not a bad cast, but whatever wit the script aims for is lost in the queasy details director Miguel Sapochnik found more fascinating. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The movie goes completely insane, in the best way possible. Read more

Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: Still, despite its flaws, this ambitious parable is enjoyable, and sometimes viscerally moving. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: As a recession-era satire, Repo Men strikes a very bitter chord. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Repo Men is basically a soulless slasher flick, and one that demeans its gifted performers. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: Under the uncertain direction of Miguel Sapochnik, the actors often seem at a loss...The inconsistency of tone is impossible to ignore. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: It's a time-waster with brains, but ultimately not enough brains, and one that wastes too much time. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: It's an intriguing premise, one director Miguel Sapochnik treats with all the subtlety of a head smashed in with a typewriter. Hey wait -- that happens! Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: This is the sort of science fiction that opts for scissors to the groin or a bullet to the head rather than a complete thought. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This was too long, mean, and gory for me, though the satirical gloss and well-executed trick ending will probably impress some. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Repo Men, rough though it is, is disturbing enough, funny enough and shocking enough to work on some weird level. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: [Repo Men] just turns into a grisly one-note chase thriller... Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: There's a key organ missing from the movie itself: a brain. In its place is a memory bank of other, better movies. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Better and smarter than you might expect. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's a film to be endured more than experienced. Read more

Ian Buckwalter, NPR: The overused homages and a tacked-on twist ending are just failed attempts to save Repo Men from its own shallow blood lust. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Repo Men is a rare film where Toronto plays itself. It's also the first I've ever seen where a typewriter is used as a lethal weapon. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: I watched a third of the movie through the cracks of my fingers, wincing. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's tough to recommend Repo Men outright, but you could do worse when trolling multiplex halls. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I don't know if the makers of this film intended it as a comedy. A preview audience regarded it with polite silence, and left the theater in an orderly fashion. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Repo Men sets up and puts into motion an attention-grabbing premise, and then, for the most part, just goes to typical places with it. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: With its radiantly ugly visuals, mean-spirited worldview and gut-wrenching levels of gore, Repo Men is about as entertaining as a burst appendix. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: This is a long-delayed sci-fi slasher flick that the relieved producers are now tossing like a malodorous Molotov cocktail into the middle of our national health care debate. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Alternately smirking and dully disgusting. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: At least a robotic handclap is due to director Sapochnik for working within his limitations (including obvious budgetary ones) and giving this Frankenstein beast as much forward momentum as it possesses. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Law and Whitaker are disastrous in the lead roles. It's a dreary and violent film that betrays its three years spent on the shelf. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: There are plenty of moments when the appearance of a flying, green-glow Chevy Malibu would be a welcome distraction. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Why good actors like Forest Whitaker and Liev Schreiber have taken major roles in this wrongheaded effort is perhaps the most compelling question posed by this film. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: This ultra-gory speculative noir is, at its infrequent best, certifiably nuts; the rest of the time, it's one numbingly brutal slog. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Another wholesale dystopian future, just like the last one. Read more

John Anderson, Washington Post: One can forgive the movie's defects, and its indecision about being tragedy or comedy. Read more