After I finished
watching the film, I had one of those moments. I couldn’t find anything good to
say about it, even though it’s a cult classic and was met with critical acclaim
upon release. Not everyone will like every movie that receives universal praise,
and today, with this movie, I’m part of that "everyone." The movie
felt disjointed. Even though it introduced an alien sci-fi vibe early on, the
connection between that and everything else felt like plain silly writing. I
felt the directing needed work, and it was way too obvious that someone with
little to no idea of how to pull something like this off was in the driver’s
seat. The movie was written and directed by Alex Cox.
Our lead is a
young man from the ’80s with a punk rock vibe. He’s a dropout who wants to
coast through life without putting in much effort. His character was hard for
me to digest—maybe because I wasn’t a teenager at the time. He just lost his
job as a store clerk and his girlfriend to a friend.
After seeing his
girl with his friend, Otto is walking down the street when a man offers him
money to drive a car and follow him. The man lies to Otto, who believes him,
but the moment Otto starts the car to drive off, he’s attacked by another man.
He manages to escape with the car and follows the first man to a garage of some
sort. Otto realizes then that the man is a repo man and is offered a job, which
he turns down.
He goes home to
his parents, who look like hippies, only to find out they’ve given money
promised to him to a televangelist. So, he takes the repo man job he was
offered earlier.
Before we meet
Otto (played by Emilio Estevez), we see a man driving fast who is stopped by a
cop. The cop asks him to open the trunk of his car. When the trunk is opened, a
bright light shines out, and the cop is killed—or, more accurately, vaporized,
with only his shoes left behind.
The car the man
was driving is also wanted, and Otto and his fellow repo men are after it. But
remember, there’s something alien in the trunk. As the movie develops, we learn
more about the contents of the car and why the man was driving with it.
Regardless of
how the plot sounds, the movie just didn’t do it for me. Alex Cox did a
follow-up comic and another movie to this, called Repo Chick.
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