Repo Men: Critic Reviews

65%

MovieWeb: 10 reviews

22%

Rotten Tomatoes: 145 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

34

[Repo Men] just turns into a grisly one-note chase thriller...
Full Review » 3 years ago
Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)

40

As a recession-era satire, Repo Men strikes a very bitter chord.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

40

Great stuff at first, but when Law grows a conscience and goes underground with the uninsured, the narrative excitement slumps.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

38

Why good actors like Forest Whitaker and Liev Schreiber have taken major roles in this wrongheaded effort is perhaps the most compelling question posed by this film.
Full Review » 3 years ago
John Anderson Washington Post (Top Critic)

63

One can forgive the movie's defects, and its indecision about being tragedy or comedy.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

50

This is the sort of science fiction that opts for scissors to the groin or a bullet to the head rather than a complete thought.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Nick Pinkerton Village Voice (Top Critic)

Another wholesale dystopian future, just like the last one.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal (Top Critic)

Repo Men is basically a soulless slasher flick, and one that demeans its gifted performers.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Kathleen Murphy MSN Movies (Top Critic)

60

Still, despite its flaws, this ambitious parable is enjoyable, and sometimes viscerally moving.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

I don't know if the makers of this film intended it as a comedy. A preview audience regarded it with polite silence, and left the theater in an orderly fashion.
Full Review » 3 years ago
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

This was too long, mean, and gory for me, though the satirical gloss and well-executed trick ending will probably impress some.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

38

I watched a third of the movie through the cracks of my fingers, wincing.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

0

With its radiantly ugly visuals, mean-spirited worldview and gut-wrenching levels of gore, Repo Men is about as entertaining as a burst appendix.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

59

Repo Men, rough though it is, is disturbing enough, funny enough and shocking enough to work on some weird level.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Bill Goodykoontz Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

50

It's an intriguing premise, one director Miguel Sapochnik treats with all the subtlety of a head smashed in with a typewriter. Hey wait -- that happens!
Full Review » 3 years ago
Justin Chang Variety (Top Critic)

This ultra-gory speculative noir is, at its infrequent best, certifiably nuts; the rest of the time, it's one numbingly brutal slog.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

25

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.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

38

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.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

63

At least a robotic handclap is due to director Sapochnik for working within his limitations (including obvious budgetary ones) and giving this Frankenstein beast as much forward momentum as it possesses.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

25

Alternately smirking and dully disgusting.
Full Review » 3 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

It's tough to recommend Repo Men outright, but you could do worse when trolling multiplex halls.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Let the 2010 Razzies race begin!
Full Review » 3 years ago
Robert Abele Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

40

There's a key organ missing from the movie itself: a brain. In its place is a memory bank of other, better movies.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Jeff Beck Examiner.com

63

Although it's an interesting premise, its lack of originality gives away where much of the film is going to go, that is, right up until you get to the unexpectedly bad ending.
Full Review » 8 months ago
Kevin Carr 7M Pictures

50

I've seen a lot of this dystopian future in science fiction... so much so that it's become cliche.
Full Review » 10 months ago