This past week a couple of B-D readers attended a recent screening of Universal Pictures' Repossession Mambo and tipped us off to what the film's title means. MAMBO is a morality tale that is set in the near future, where artificial organs can be bought on credit, with the understanding that defaulting on payment will result in a fatal repossession. In Miguel Sapochnik's pic, Jude Law and Forest Whitaker are repo men who take back the organs. Law's character refers to the "twitch" - or "dance" - the victims do while being operated on as the "repossession mambo". Our readers weren't fans of the movie, but if you head on over to AICN you can read the first ever review.
Repo sounds cooler. It's really shocking that studios are running so low on new material that they have to rip other studios off. I will download it before I pay them to see it (although I probably will just not watch it).
I agree with Stubs. Sue these clowns. And give me Anthony Head over Jude Law any day. I hope this never makes it to even Limited Release. The sad thing is, since its Universal, it probably will. Its a damn shame that Universal can get away with plagarism like this.
Just as an aside... the title of both of these films suck. MAMBOs and OPERAs (unless there are phantoms thereof) do not invoke images of horror in my brain.
WOW. It's ridiculous how much this echoes "Repo! The Genetic Opera".
100% Rip-off.
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