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Repo! The Genetic Opera

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Repo! The Genetic Opera
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R,1hr 38min
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November 7, 2008
Distributor:
Lionsgate Films
DVD Review
by Sean Axmaker, Special to MSN Movies

This rock musical about a bleak future in which organ transplants are financed on credit and a surgical repo man takes them back if you fall behind on your payments was originally a stage production. The film version is the passion project of Darren Lynn Bousman (of the "Saw" sequels), who makes it into a "Phantom of the Paradise" by way of a slasher movie with a cult-star cast (Anthony Head, Paul Sorvino, Paris Hilton and Bill Moseley). Sarah Brightman pulls her eyes out of her sockets, and Joan Jett makes an unbilled cameo. Which makes it all sound better than what it is: a murky mess of ringing guitars and monotonous tunes and half-baked social satire. With live organ removals. Features two commentary tracks and a self-congratulatory featurette.

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