Forgotten flicks - Repo Man
Posted in Entertainment by Sailor on Jun 04, 06:00AM
Repo Man (1984)
Universal Pictures
Director: Alex Cox
The Breakfast Club was neat ‘n’ all, but it was just a bunch of privileged suburban turds, whinging about nothing in particular. To a degree, Emilio Estevez had some "screen-sizzle" to him, but it was in his previous film, Repo Man, that he really burned with intensity.
Estevez plays the role of Otto Maddox, a delinquent punk kid with a chip on his shoulder. Within five minutes of the film starting, you’re already championing him as he screams his own tortured rendition of T.V. Party by Black Flag to a stricken Los Angeles sunset.
After a sudden falling out with his scurvy punk friends, Otto unwittingly ends up becoming a car repossession man, thanks to the conniving yet caring Bud (Harry Dean Stanton).
Otto soon falls in with Bud’s disparate rabble of repo men, Oly, Lite and Miller (ironically the names of popular beer brands), who all become embroiled in a mad hunt for a "hot car", worth $20,000.
Throw in some crazy Mexicans, the C.I.A, a mad scientist, extraterrestrials, mystical bums, gutter wisdom, a killer soundtrack and punk drug fiends on a crime spree and you get a ringside view into interwoven characters who cut through the L.A. night like a chainsaw.
Totally Bad-Ass!
- Review by Jordan Bloomer.
- Currently 0/5 Stars.
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