Repossessed! *spoiler alert*

Repo Men (2010)
Director- Miguel Sapochnik
Starring- Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga

Remy (Law) and Jake (Whitaker) work for a company that manufactures replacement organs for transplant recipients.  Their job is to track down those who are over 90 days overdue on their payments, then take the organs back, leaving the the unfortunate recipient to die where they lay.

Remy and Jake love their jobs, and are very good at them, too.  Remy's wife, however, doesn't share his enthusiasm for his work and urges him to get transferred to a department that isn't quite so bloody, and that lets him spend more time with his family.  Remy cannot stay away from his job, though, and the wear on his family becomes so much that she eventually leaves him.

During a heart repossession, Remy suffers a serious shock from a bad defibrillator and must have his own heart replaced as a result.  His efforts to try to resume life "as usual" are hindered by the fact that he now feels empathy for those recipients he's repossessed from, and can no longer perform those duties.  He tries one of the "safer" departments like sales, but finds he cannot pressure people into buying new organs without being honest and warning them of what will happen should they be unable to pay.  He is soon fired, and cannot afford to pay for his own replacement.  Instead of submitting to his best friend and former coworker, Remy goes on the lam and searches for a place where he won't be found out.

He soon finds Beth (Braga), a woman who' also running away from repo men.  Beth's transplants seem to take up half of her body, all black market.  Together the two try to make their way out of the country to live peacefully.

This movie was a lot better than I had originally anticipated.  I figured it would be a goofy, dystopian future society with a lot of digital stuff being thrown in.  It was actually more realistic, closer to society of today, only with a few changes in business policy.  The gadgetry was a little high-tech (like the scanners that detected the transplant), but not over-the-top.

Acting was solid all around.  The ending started to get a little cheesy, but then decided to turn around and give you a serious mindwarp right in the last few minutes.

Rating:  3.5/5 Bonedaddies.

The Title Doesn't Do the Film Justice

A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Director- L.Q. Jones
Starring- Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Tim McIntire

Vic (Johnson) and his dog Blood (voiced by McIntire) roam the postapocalyptic countryside on the lookout for food. Vic somehow has the power to communicate with Blood via telepathy, and any novelty he may have felt in the beginning has appeared to have worn off, as the two constantly bicker during their journey. Despite the gnawing hunger, as well as Vic's "man needs", the pair stick together through good and bad.

Along the way, they rescue a girl who had been kidnapped and intended to use as a sex slave. Finding himself in love, Vic follows her deep into the earth, where an underground community dwells in perfect old-fashioned civility. Vic is recruited to help repopulate, but is disappointed to find out it's not nearly as fun as it originally sounded.

"What the fuck?!" ran through my head throughout this whole movie, but I have to admit, I loved it! There was very little attempt to explain why Vic had the telepathic power to hear Blood's thoughts, which is fine because it's annoying when movies try to conveniently explain every little aspect of a character that isn't immediately understood. I also loved Vic's far-from-gentlemanly attitude toward women--even the protagonist can be starved for sex, apparently.
What really brings the strange element home for this movie is the ending, which I won't give away, except to say I was very amused by the little turn of events.

Rating: 4/5 Bonedaddies.