Repo Men
Universal Pictures | Release Date: March 19, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
12
Negative:
16
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
The sci-fi thriller Repo Men gets off to a sluggish start. But wait. You have to give the movie time to find its groove and establish its premise. Read full review
63
Washington PostJohn Anderson
Repo Men grafts moral ambiguity onto the action thriller, and the result is a weird but likably misshapen beast. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
One problem with Repo Men is that there's not enough material to sustain a 111-minute motion picture. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
It’s a time-waster with brains, but ultimately not enough brains, and one that wastes too much time. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
If Repo Men could have sustained its ghoulish humor, it might have been a guilty pleasure. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
There's not a lot of humor here, just violence and more violence. The acting is fine enough - Whitaker, of the talented bunch, seems to be having the best time - but the slicing and dicing overpowers the cast, the story and everything else. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Repo Men makes sci-fi's strongest possible case for universal health care. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
There is a mild pleasure in the sight of Jude Law pirouetting with a hacksaw through gangs of extras, but the amusement is notional. I actually don’t find him terribly interesting as a kinetic object. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
It may have been a shrewd business decision by the film’s director, Miguel Sapochnik, to treat the story as a nasty, comic thriller. But when, after a certain point, Repo Men subsumes its satire to strenuous action sequences, it loses its edge and turns into a chase movie of no special distinction. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
There's a good idea behind Repo Men, not a whole lot of thinking, but at least one whole idea. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
A grisly one-note chase thriller. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele
There's a key organ missing from the movie itself: a brain. In its place is a memory bank of other, better movies. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
The big problem here is that dark sci-fi satire works best when it aims for several targets. Repo Men aims at corporate greed, which is good, but doesn’t fill in the details. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith Uhlich
A tedious example of speculative fiction. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Where has all the fun science-fiction filmmaking gone? Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
This is not a bad cast, but whatever wit the script aims for is lost in the queasy details director Miguel Sapochnik found more fascinating. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
As an account of how for-profit big business literally rips a consumer's heart out, Repo Men is too graphic for me. Read full review
38
PremiereJordan Burchette
It’s not cynically bad, it’s simply a case of movie malpractice. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Sitting through this movie is worse than being locked in a room with a continuous loop of "Nip/Tuck" playing on a jumbo screen. Read full review
34
NPRIan Buckwalter
The overused homages and a tacked-on twist ending are just failed attempts to save Repo Men from its own shallow blood lust. Read full review
33
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
What could have been a biting, darkly comic action flick about capitalistic health care run amok is instead a familiar, gory, post-apocalyptic slog. Read full review
33
Christian Science MonitorAndy Klein
Whitaker and Schreiber, both of whom are capable of brilliance, are stuck in one-dimensional roles. It’s not only the characters who have mechanical organs; the film itself is equally lifeless and cold. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Comprising reclaimed bits from "Blade Runner," "A Clockwork Orange" and "Children of Men" and glibly served up with hyper Guy Ritchie attitude by first-time feature director Miguel Sapochnik, the resulting in-your-face mess never knows what it wants to be when it grows up. Read full review
30
SalonStephanie Zacharek
It's sad when a bit of grim futuristic silliness like Repo Men falls short on all counts, down to the most basic level of entertainment value. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
Repo Men is a rare film where Toronto plays itself. It's also the first I've ever seen where a typewriter is used as a lethal weapon. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
The obvious question about Repo Men: Why bother? Read full review
20
VarietyJustin Chang
This ultra-gory speculative noir is, at its infrequent best, certifiably nuts; the rest of the time, it's one numbingly brutal slog. Read full review
20
Boxoffice MagazineWade Major
Should be immediately screened in film schools across the world as a shining example of everything that is wrong with the American studio system and the increasingly dreadful junk it produces. Read full review
0
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
The movie shares this premise with 2008's "Repo!: The Genetic Opera." It would be worth researching who ripped off whom if both weren't ghastly. Read full review
0
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Has exactly the same premise (Repo! The Genetic Opera). Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Basically a soulless slasher flick, and one that demeans its gifted performers. Read full review
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