Repo Men

Miguel Sapochnik's dystopian sci-fi satire has a great premise and opening half-hour. Jude Law and Forest Whitaker play "repo men" in a Blade-Runnerish technopolis, employed by a medical insurance company that sells organ transplants to ill people on HP; if customers fall behind on repayments, the repo-cowboys are paid to track them down, taser them, and carve out the mortgaged organ. Life is sweet for the repo men, until an accident at work means one has to get an artificial organ … Great stuff at first, but when Law grows a conscience and goes underground with the uninsured, the narrative excitement slumps.