Working from Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich's play-turned-script, Bousman creates a visual landscape different than but not dissimilar to the Saw films – one writ large against a global backdrop but still littered with the disembodied carcasses of souls who aren't possessed of the fortune or fortitude to endure the twisted designs of people with absolute power but indeterminate mental stability. In other words, Repo! feels destined if not outright designed to be a cult film, which will no doubt earn it some serious credentials with the Hot Topic crowd even if their sunnier counterparts decide to see High School Musical 3 instead.
Writer-director Bousman, going out on the same kind of limb that previously snapped beneath Richard Kelly during his sprawling, disastrous Southland Tales, manages to preserve a tenuous balance between crowd-pleasing and pure self-indulgence, crafting a movie that possesses all of the elements of blockbuster genre filmmaking but organizes them in a way that's too idiosyncratic to connect with a mainstream audience. All that means is that I was unfamiliar with the characters, story and songs before seeing the film, and was no more interested in them afterward. While I am fairly certain that at some point I've made a purchase from one of those teen-targeting mall stores that stock the full line of Manic Panic hair products, Korn t-shirts and Nightmare Before Christmas knick-knacks, I am in no way the target audience for Repo!. Before long, Shilo, her father and the Rottis converge upon the annual staging of The Genetic Opera, where longstanding grudges and unresolved conflicts come bubbling to the surface at the same time that the world's pre-eminent entertainment event unfolds in front of the world populace. Meanwhile, a sheltered young girl named Shilo Wallace (Alexa Vega) escapes from the imprisonment of her father Nathan's (Anthony Stewart Head) palatial estate, only to uncover a sordid, blood-stained trail of deceit, betrayal and death that binds her family to the Rottis.
After decades in charge of GeneCo, CEO Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino) announces that he is stepping down due to health reasons, leaving his empire to be divided among his three children Luigi (Bill Moseley), Pavi (Ogre) and Amber Sweet (Paris Hilton) – each of whom is unsuitable to take over the reins for various reasons. The only catch is that GeneCo reserves the right to repossess these organs if recipients don't make their payments, and enlists Repo Men to retrieve the used body parts. The film takes place in the not-so-distant future, where a corporation named GeneCo has revolutionized the healthcare system by offering widespread transplants after an epidemic of organ failures threatens the world's populations.
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