Whitaker shines during the scenes where he struggles with doing his job and helping his best friend. This is his story and he makes it worth sitting through. I’ve heard some people say that Law doesn’t fit this role, and they’re right, it’s actually the other way around - Law makes this role fit him.

Jude Law and Forest Whitaker are easily the best part of the film. After seeing this film, however, it remains that the concept I really like has yet to be properly executed. Repo! The Genetic Opera was pretty terrible overall having less than a few moments of brilliance and I was sure Repo Men would capitalize on all its failings. It seemingly takes the only thing I liked about Repo! The Genetic Opera (the concept of someone’s organs being repossessed) and uses it to create a full-length film. Repo Men is based on the novel The Repossession Mambo written by screenwriter Eric Garcia in 2003 and published in 2009. Now with a debt he can’t repay on his hands, Remy struggles to find a way to take himself out of the system while evading his best friend who has been contracted to hunt him down. That is until a faulty defibrillator sends Jake into cardiac arrest and he wakes up with the latest heart replacement in his chest. Jake is a bit more careless than Remy, so Remy is basically looked at as the best man for the job. This is where Remy (Jude Law) and Jake (Forest Whitaker) come in they’re partners and best friends who happen to be the best repo men in the business.

That’s right, the catch is that after 96 days of The Union not receiving payment, they send repo men to retrieve whatever organ(s) they’ve provided, without any concern of the recipient surviving the retrieval procedure. These organs can be purchased by anyone for any reason - if, however, they’re unable to pay the incredibly steep full price (usually somewhere in the hundreds of thousands of dollars), they’ve got two choices: Make monthly payments or run. In a futuristic world, an organization called The Union has created highly developed and highly priced mechanical organs.

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