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Film This Week in Film: Repo Men
Posted by Lindy West on Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:14 AM
Paul Constant would prefer Jason Statham:
Repo Men has a whole lot of wasted potential: Tremendous opportunities for commentary about the current health-care mess go mostly unmined, and several clever side characters remain unexplored. In the place of these lost possibilities, we get long, dry stretches of plot livened up with incredibly gory violence. Jude Law's enthusiasm for the role can't obscure the fact that it should've gone to someone with more raw physicality (like Jason Statham), and the twists are fairly obligatory.
Read the whole thing—and comment on Jason Statham's raw physicality—HERE.
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