Realistically, this film has everything I could want from a movie. It has excessive amounts of blood, an inflated futuristic plot, which in itself is fairly unique, and some nudity here and there. What I got instead was an interesting premise with no real motivation and a few good action scenes. Yet for some reason I left the theater without the same anger I had after watching Jennifer’s Body, and instead felt like I got my money’s worth of entertainment.

Repo Men follows best friends Remy (Jude Law) and Jake (Forest Whitaker) as employees for The Union, a company that provides artificial limbs to extend the life of the people in exchange for large amounts of credit. Their line of work however is repossession, resulting in bloody on-scene surgeries for those unfortunate to be back in their payment. Remy finds himself an unwilling buyer of a new artificial heart after a near death accident on one of his jobs and gets behind in his payment. Ten guesses what happens next.

Repo Man turned Repo Victim, Remy has a change of heart (ZING) and decides that this kind of work is wrong and vows to find a way to save his life as well as the life of everyone else that was foolish enough to purchase an organ. What followed was typical action thriller fare: friend turning on friend, a secondary and almost unnecessary love story, and buckets of blood.

One of the things the film had going for it was its action. Although in no way setting any standards, first time director Miguel Sapochnik did a good job at keeping it focused and full of blood. It does walk a fine line between satirical and serious however, as I did find myself laughing at a lot of the ridiculous fight scenes. However, the overall premise does lend itself for some expected insanity, so it doesn’t hurt the film in any real way.

Although the film is anchored by heavy hitters like Law and Whitaker the script does little with character development and when it does try to put in romance or heartbreak, you’re left feeling like something was left out. Between Remy’s marriage plight and newfound love interest, I never got the feeling that any of this mattered and just wanted someone to get shot in the face again. In any case, the actors do a good job at portraying their different roles in the film and never once delivered a cringe worthy line despite being in an over-the-top environment.

Another thing I found was a bit of a letdown was the futuristic setting and storyline. Even though I did like how the film stayed true to its name and basically followed the whole “repo men” principle throughout the film, it was disappointing that it didn’t in some ways try to branch out of the “bad corporation vs. the world” mold. The film however is full of some of the most nauseating stomach slashing and neck slicing “repo” scenes that will test your metal for blood, as well as having the most interesting final half-hour in any movie I’ve seen all year. Suffice it to say that both the action and plot are jacked up to outrageous proportions, leaving your brain feeling like it just went through a digestive tract.

So why exactly was I not angry by the end of the movie? The movie, frankly, just met all of my expectations. I was expecting a two hour gore-fest. It was that. An embellished plotline fully depicted in the movie trailers. It had that. So really, this film plays no tricks and conveys everything it set out to be: a disgusting blood bath of people cutting other people open. It just simply works.

No, the movie won’t get any reviews above “complete crap,” and won’t make anyone a Sci-Fi fan if they weren’t one already, but it manages to do the same thing random You-Tube videos do: distract you from all the homework you have on a Sunday afternoon by disgusting the crap out of you.

It was disappointing to see that the film did little in using its futuristic setting and its actors but what was here was shocking and a lot of times funny enough to warrant entertainment for anyone watching.