Review of Repo Man

Repo Man (1984)
7/10
A Bizarre Type of Comedy
8 March 2019
This film begins with a car driving erratically on a lonely highway somewhere in the Mojave Desert. Noticing the car swerving back and forth on the road a motorcycle cop pulls the driver "J. Frank Parnell" (Fox Harris) over and curious as to what might be in the trunk proceeds to open it. He is then immediately incinerated and Parnell proceeds to drive haphazardly away. The scene then shifts to Los Angeles where a white suburban punk named "Otto" (Emilio Estevez) is in the process of being fired from his job at a grocery store. Later that even he finds his girlfriend "Debbi" (Jennifer Balgobin) in bed with his bestfriend "Duke" (Dick Rude). So with few other options he accepts a job as a repo man-and that's when things really get bizarre. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an unusual film which caught me by surprise the first time seeing it. I especially enjoyed all of the minor details thrown in which gave this movie its special character. Anyway, I recommend this film to those viewers who might be interested in a weird type of comedy of this type and I have rated it accordingly. Above average.
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