I watched the most amazing movie last night. Warning: It's not for the faint of heart. It's by the producers of the "Saw" movies if that gives you any clue. However, the movie itself wasn't strictly cut-em-up and kill-kill-kill.
The basis of the movie is in the future where organ failure becomes an epidemic. People's organs are failing left and right and a company called "GeneCo" comes out with a way to save people by selling organs. It's legalized and the CEO, played by Paul Sorvino who actually has a VERY operatic singing voice, is basically the bad guy in the movie. People can actually finance their way to a new heart or a new liver. However, if they don't pay up, the "Repo Man" Nathan is sent out, played by Anthony Stewart Head who played Giles on the "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" TV show. Nathan lives a secret life as the Repo Man, where no one knows who he is exactly except the CEO of GeneCo. Nathan has a 17-year-old daughter, Shiloh, played by Alexis Vega of "Spy Kids" fame, who is severely ill with some unnamed blood disorder who thinks her father is a doctor... which he was, in his earlier years, before Shiloh's birth.
Then there's the kids of the CEO, all three are complete misfits, including the daughter Amber Sweet who is surprisingly played by Paris Hilton and actually impressed me in this. She plays a rich bitch who is addicted to plastic surgery... not much unlike her real life role, ha-ha. The most surprising and yet likely casting in this movie is the role of Blind Mag, played by the unbelievable soprano diva herself, Sarah Brightman. Yes, the one and only original Christine from the original Broadway cast of "The Phantom of the Opera." Blind Mag is a singing diva who performs at the whim of GeneCo and basically signed away her life for a pair of new eyes.
I'm not going to go much farther into the plot as it has MANY twists and turns... however, with the comic-book attempt to tell the backstory, it keeps the movie from getting way too drawn out. The ending left me bawling and yet still wanting more... an amazingly done movie that I'm sure is going to be the next Rocky Horror Picture Show cult classic of our time. It's quite gory at times, however not overly so seeing the topic of the movie, I thought... and seeing that I like that type of movie, I wasn't too grossed out. It was an amazing piece of entertainment that I thought should have been in theaters rather than straight-to-DVD release. The music rocks big time and the acting was stunning... I don't think it could have been casted any better!!
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