Imagine, if you will, a future in which mechanical internal organs could be bought as readily as new TVs or kettles or toasters. A future in which people lived longer because their failing hearts, and livers, and lungs could be upgraded to artificial, high-performance alternatives. Better still, these fault-free organs would be available to buy on credit, with individually tailored repayment plans – ‘Live Now, Pay Later’. Only there’s a catch – default on your payments and the company from which you bought your artificial organ will send a repossession agent to take back what is still rightfully theirs…
That’s the premise of futuristic action-thriller Repo Men. Here’s the trailer…
To activate the sound in the trailer: hold your cursor over the screen to reveal the control panel and click on the volume control in the bottom right-hand corner.
At first, Jude Law may seem an odd choice to play a ruthless repossession agent (though arguably no more odd than Keira Knightley playing a ruthless bounty hunter in 2005′s Domino). It’s easy to imagine the actor as too light and slight to convincingly portray a man capable of slicing open hapless defaulters. But, from the trailer, it seems he injects his character, Remy, with a streetwise, frenetic charm well suited to the tone of the movie. And partnering the British star with Hollywood heavyweight Forest Whitaker should make for an interesting on-screen dynamic. In Law, British director Miguel Sapochnik may just have found an appealing antihero.
But be warned – if your heart belongs to Jude Law, he may want it back!
Repo Men is released on 23 April 2010.
