Repo Man (1984)
7/10
Entertaining sci-fi weirdfest
4 February 2004
Recently I purchased this movie on DVD and only then I realised how good it was. The script is witty and funny, the main characters acting ie Otto (Estevez) and Bud (Stanton), is well above average even though the parts aren't really that challenging and the special effects are goofy and look low budget but still work very well.

Otto is a teenage punk full of angst and annoyed that his life is going nowhere and he is stuck in a crappy job in a supermarket. He loses this at the start of the film and wanders around through parties and nights where there is alot of beer and the punk music plays loud. This is until he meets Bud and becomes a repo man and gets dragged in to a world of crazy scientists, crime and aliens in the boot of a 1964 Chevy Malibu. All this may sound weird but somehow seems to make sense in the movie as a whole.

There are some great lines such as "John Wayne was a fag" and "Let's go get sushi... and not pay" which bring huge laughs. This film has everything to be honest, comedy, shootouts, love, sex, flying cars etc. I recommend this

movie to everybody.
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