![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I wish I could describe the plot, but there's none to be found here: throughout the duration of the movie, these characters simply sing backstory to us, mostly about Shilo's mother, who died during childbirth. Slowly, our cast of characters is introduced: Graverobber (Terrance Zdunich), a sort of narrator Shilo (Alexa Vega), a young girl with a rare disease her overprotective father Nathan (Anthony Head), who also moonlights as a repo man Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino), the owner of GeneCo his three repellent children, played by Paris Hilton, Bill Moseley, and Ogre from Skinny Puppy and opera star Blind Mag, played by renowned soprano Sarah Brightman in what – as far as I can tell – is her feature film debut. I appreciated 5 or 10 minutes of Repo! – it's certainly something different – but I was exhausted after 100 minutes of this nearly unwatchable mess, and looking back I'm surprised I managed to make it through at all.Ī comic-book montage gives us the setting: in the not-so-distant future, an epidemic of organ failures has ravaged the world and led to the success of GeneCo, an organ transplant company that sends out repo men to retrieve hearts and livers and spleens should anyone miss a payment. Now, about that tricky movie part: there's no story, no plot, no characters we can care about, no emotional investment, no reason whatsoever to watch. They've got the cult part right: outlandish characters, fetishistic undertones, nonstop song-and-dance, inventive camerawork, high-contrast lighting, Paris Hilton, etc. Repo! The Genetic Opera is what happens when filmmakers set out to make a cult movie. ![]()
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