It’s bloody and brutal but also sort of breathtaking – the confidence with which Repo Men lays the groundwork for its blistering social commentary.
A Styrofoam container showed up at my desk the other day. It looked like an ice chest, and it was filled with all kinds of goodies. Both normal and grotesque. And it was enough to get me more than a little giddy about the upcoming movie Repo Men:
As a movie, Sherlock Holmes is really only halfway there: A boneheaded action film smartly dressed up as an intellectual game of cat-and-mouse. A sophisticated chess match that is repeatedly interrupted by TNT detonations.
