But while the film's spectacle is almost always entrancing, the songs only sporadically deliver. Repo! successfully recalls the hyper-stylised environment of comic books and fantasy films, aided by graphic-novel inserts that explain the back-stories of the principal characters.Īs with many musicals, Repo!'s songs and spectacle overpower a thin story. Shilo is not aware of her father's secret life, but soon she will uncover his identity and his connection to Rotti Largo (Sorvino), the company's sinister CEO.Īdapting their stage show, Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich have concocted a world that liberally borrows from such dystopian epics as Blade Runner and the films of Tim Burton. If the customer can't pay, Repo Man comes to collect the organ, killing the customer in the process. Set approximately 50 years in the future, Repo! concerns 17-year-old Shilo (Vega), a sickly young woman whose father Nathan (Head) has a secret identity as Repo Man, an assassin for a powerful corporation that offers organ transplants on a payment plan.
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Repo!'s connection to the Saw series might attract the curious - the film's director, Darren Lynn Bousman, and several of the producers and below-the-line technicians have worked on the franchise - but with a cast lacking in big names, commercial expectations are low before its natural progression to the midnight-movie circuit. Repo! Opens in limited release in the US on November 7, and the film seems destined to be a cult curiosity in the vein of Hedwig And The Angry Inch. Mainstream crowds will steer clear of Repo!'s determined strangeness, but fans of the offbeat should seek it out. Based on a Los Angeles theatrical piece, this futuristic rock opera will annoy those unwilling to meet it halfway, as its shamelessly melodramatic story-songs leave the musical fluctuating between the inspired and the obnoxiously indulgent. Kinky, sexy, gory and campy, Repo! The Genetic Opera may be an unwieldy mess, but it's a fun unwieldy mess.
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