Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Absolutely amazing

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman who is known for Saw Films (Part 2 to 4). Starring Alexa PenaVega, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head, Sarah Brightman, Paris Hilton, Bill Moseley, Kevin 'ohGr' Ogilvie and Terrance Zdunich. Great performance by everyone, Sarah Brightman was amazing with her bright eyes and her golden voice, I didn't know she was a singer until I checked her out on Wikipedia. I was surprised to see Paris Hilton in a movie like this, but she did a great job as well. And finally the actors who stole the show was none other than Bill Moseley and Kevin 'ohGr' Ogilvie. I would love to see a Repo movie mainly about them. Hail to Luigi and Pavi Largo!!!

I loved this movie from start to finish. The beginning is set up very stylistically with a comic book type story board and it looks great. The songs are beautiful and catchy. There are twists in the plot but not in a super cheesy way. The makeup and costumes of the actors and actresses looked fantastic. I loved the way the songs were actually part of the dialogue of the movie and the plot rather than just randomly added filler the way a lot of musicals are. I mean, it's so obnoxious when a character just randomly sings a pointless song about their buttered toast at breakfast just to make the movie longer and that sort of thing is no where in Repo! The Genetic Opera. The movie also makes a nice commentary on the potential dystopia future of how corporations basically make the laws of the land.

Okay combine Opera with Gothic subculture, heavy metal, slasher movies and dystopian futures. It's an interesting combination, and one that is in this film throughout. For that I can guess you can safely say there is no other movie I have seen that is like this (and I've done over 1000) and I just have to give the movie extra points for that because... the combination works.In the future Organ failures become more common and a company called GeneCo gives people organs to pay off later as debt - don't pay it and they just take it out of you (which a law was passed making it 100% legal). We follow Nathan, a Repo Man trying to keep his daughter Shilo safe from the outside world but she is asked to go out with the president of GeneCo because he can cure the blood disease which killed her mother. Through this she learns more and more about the outside world and becomes a little more rebellious to her father each time she goes outside.Okay, so being as that this is an Opera - the big question is How's the music? Well I enjoyed it. It doesn't just have heavy metal as a genre, there are also elements of pop, dubstep and other forms of music of the last century or so. The movie is rich in these kinds of music and if you're into either or most of these genres then I do suggest taking a look at this movie.If I had any complaint with the music, it had to be the song "Mark It Up". It's about the spoiled children of the CEO of GeneCo singing about who will inherit the monopolies of both the organ harvesting and the painkillers. I mean it's played for laughs but it's out of place with the rest of the movie. If you want a song in this movie played for laughs then Thankless Job was funny enough (sorry, my sense of humour is disgusting) and all it really does is just tell us that all three of them want the same thing... Even though without it, that's established okay enough.Aside from that the visual style is striking, the cinematography is good, the acting and singing gets surprisingly good from some of the main players (did you know Carmen from Spy Kids can sing?). If there is a weakness from the main players, it's Paul Sorvino - he can't sing. I'd also say for something that doesn't really have as high of a budget as other movies of it's type the whole production design is a clear example of something that's done in this movie really well.This movie obviously requires a specific taste for people to enjoy it. I mean if what you're looking for is something that takes a few risks, you can turn off your brain and enjoy as well as look at good production design and listen to some good metal songs then this is probably going to be a movie worth checking out. It's certainly a unique film of which I would not be surprised if there will be a cult following for this movie in about 10 or so years because when you get down to it while the plot does have some holes in it it still holds up because what works in this movie works really well.

Enjoyed this, good story, good songs, and cheesy as hell!! you can tell it's come from the theatre, a bit like rocky horror in many ways, nothing should be taken seriously, and if your still watching after ten minutes, you'll probably enjoy the film. If you really don't like it early on, it might not be for you, and you should watch something else that might win an Oscar with some serious acting in heard they are making a sequel.. might be interesting... might, and most likely, be awful.