Repo Man

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Repo Man

Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '6...( read more  read more... )4 Chevy.

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  • SirPant
    September 29, 2009
    SirPant
    Love this film! It?s one of those underground 80's films I adore. Great cast, great lines and great story, not to mention the great soundtrack. This is one of the coolest films ever made!
  • DrZeek
    July 31, 2009
    DrZeek
    Miller: The life of a repo man is always intense.

    A bizarre tale set in LA, that involves the repo man business, punks, a Chevy Malibu, and aliens. Its a dark comedy of sorts, with elements suggesting satire, cold war paranoia, and hints of a coming of age tale.

    Emilio Este...( read more)vez (the Mighty Ducks man himself) stars as Otto, a young punk who just lost his job at a grocery store as well as his girlfriend to his recently released best friend. He is tricked by a seasoned repo man Bud, played by Harry Dean Stanton, to help him on a job and then becomes a young repo man himself.

    Lite: Put your seatbelt on, boy. I don't ride with anybody 'less they wear their seatbelt. It's one of my rules.

    Meanwhile, a Chevy Malibu has made its way from a certain spot in New Mexico over to LA and the trunk is packing something straight out of the film "Kiss Me Deadly." It becomes a hot commodity for many, as the CIA are hunting it down, as well as the repo men, knowing it has a $20,000 tag on it.

    Watching this film, I found it very obvious that Richard Kelly's Southland Tales was clearly inspired in part by this movie. This flick is a bizarre ride that takes multiple characters, situations, and very funny sight gags and mixes it all together until it reaches its final five minutes that make you wonder what the hell just happened, not to mention all the crazy shit that happened during the flick.

    All this being said, I enjoyed this movie's sense of humor. The way it is woven together was intriguing enough to keep me watching with expectations for what would happen next. I also really enjoyed Harry Dean Stanton and Tracey Walter as the strange Miller character, as well as the solid punk rock soundtrack.

    It certainly fits the billing of a strange cult movie, but something tells me that I'm gonna look back on this flick and want to watch it again. It has the weird intriguing quality that makes me curious.

    Duke: The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.
    Otto: That's bullshit. You're a white suburban punk just like me.
    Duke: Yeah, but it still hurts.
  • rubystevens
    December 4, 2008
    rubystevens
    a sequel is in the works? what the fuckin fuck?
  • bradwest
    November 1, 2008
    bradwest
    Still think this is great punk cinema. Funny in the right an wrong ways.
  • harrycaul
    February 13, 2008
    harrycaul
    On the evidence of "Repo Man" alone, British director Alex Cox ought to have had a subsequent career similar to those of the Coens or Terry Gilliam: producing quirky, imaginative, critically respected little gems, just outside of the mainstream. Unfortunately, Cox soon frittered ...( read more)away his credibility with a series of failures that nobody went to see, so for a generation of young British movie fans in the late-'80s to mid-'90s, he became the face of BBC2's seminal "Moviedrome" film season, which first acquainted me with "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", "Week-End", "The Witchfinder General", "Dead Ringers", "Assault on Precinct 13" and a host of others. Essentially a MacGuffin chase movie, there's not a lot of plot to "Repo Man", but it's stunningly shot by Wim Wenders' regular cameraman, Robby Muller, and it's perfectly cast right down to the smallest parts. Witty gags about consumerism and jokey references to other movies abound, and it has a fantastic soundtrack.
  • paulanthonynelson
    January 1, 2010
    paulanthonynelson
    As funny, clever, original, weird & stylish as expected... so it's a shame to see it get swept up in its own hysteria toward the end.
  • tacmovies
    December 17, 2009
    tacmovies
    Strange Little Movie...

    Story: The plot of this movie is somewhat difficult to describe and it's even more difficult to make sense out of it. What I can say confidently is that this is a dark, absurdist comedy about a punk kid who gets roped into being a repo man and his biz...( read more)arre adventures along the way. This movie has a small cult following, so I'm preparing to get ripped apart when I say this, but some of the writing is brilliant, like Fox Harris as a mad scientist bragging about getting a lobotomy or Tracey Walter's bit ranting about how humans must have paradoxical origins in the future, but the rest is just plain terrible. This movie tries way too hard to be smart and hip and edgy. The end result is somewhere between self parody and pretentious bullshit. I know that I'm supposed to laugh at the ridiculousness of lines like, ?Let's go do some crimes! Yeah, let's get sushi and not pay!? but instead I just groaned in embarrassment for the movie. So, yeah, the story gets a D, as in doggy.

    Acting: There are some really good performances here, the best being Harry Dean Stanton as a very dry, crazed repo man who thinks he's the wisest man alive but doesn't really know anything. Emilio Estevez... I'm not sure what to say. He plays the worst kind of scum on the planet, and he does it well. So, if I was supposed to hate my main protagonist, then I guess he did a good job. If not, if he was supposed to a likeable anti-hero, then he failed. Everything he did, everything he said, and just the look on his face made me want to hit him or hope someone in the movie (which, fortunately they do hit him, so wish granted). As already mentioned, Tracey Walter does a good job and Fox Harris makes a great mad scientist. C

    Direction: Again, this is a hard one to call, and it's hard to decide whether I'm complaining about the story or the direction. The timeline just doesn't work in this movie. The big offender comes when Emilio gets ticked when Emilio gets ticked with Harry and gets out of his car in a rage. A completely unrelated scene follows. I'm not sure if said scene was supposed to take place five minutes later, a day later, a week later, or what. Emilio runs into Harry later, and they're fine with each other, as if they never had a fight. Later in the movie, I guess they remembered their little spat, and then they're fighting again. Now, maybe the script was written chronologically and then was pieced together in a different order in post, in which case this is the directors fault. Or maybe it was bad writing. I don't know. I didn't see the script. In any case, both categories suffered. D

    Visuals: These were actually pretty good and some of the best laughs in the movie came from the sheer ridiculousness of the visuals. I liked the thing in Fox Harris' trunk and I liked the ending sequence. So, I guess I'll give this a B.

    Overall: I ended this movie feeling very conflicted. The things that were good were great, the things that were bad were awful. It is a cult classic, so perhaps you should see it to see what all the fuss is about, but I can only really recommend this movie to those who like arty, surrealist style movies. It's kinda funny at times, but not a gut busting comedy, so I can't recommend it on those grounds. Basically, if you're not an art student and are able to watch it for less that five dollars, it might be worth your time, but only if you've seen all the other movies first. D


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  • thereverendtholomewplague
    December 13, 2009
    thereverendtholomewplague
    Fuckin' sterling!
    Buh-rill!

    Story of my life? Maybe so!
    Bwahahahaha!

    "Uhuh, well, uh, i'll get going, here."
    "did you like the tea?"
    "the tea. yeah it was terrif."

    Full of win, not to mention the epic soundtrack.
    Great film. Worth the watch.

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    "Life of a repo man is always intense."
  • sandral22oneil
    December 10, 2009
    sandral22oneil
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  • dublingunner
    October 7, 2009
    dublingunner
    finally watched this, lets say it's a film of the 80's alex cox has done better since and so has most of the cast
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