IMDb plot summary: A young punk, recruited by a car repo agency, finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu with a huge, $20,000 bounty--and something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.
Directed by Alex Cox. Starring Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, and Tracey Walter.
Repo Man Stars Emilio Estevez as a teenager who is a punk but gets a job as a Repo Man. He and his company are sent out on the lookout for a particular car with a huge bounty on it, which turns out to maybe be part of a giant conspiracy to cover up aliens. When I was recommended this, I assumed it was a typical 1980s action movie, maybe with some coming of age elements sprinkled in. But it's so much weirder than that and that was a delightful surprise. Once I was able to lean into it as a full-fledged bizarre comedy story, it suddenly started to click for me. Unfortunately that wasn't until later in the film, and I spent the beginning of the film perplexed by the film's tone. It's one that i would like to revisit at some point in the future after I've let the details of the plot slip away from my memory but still remember the overall vibe it brought. It's a wacky, wild movie that I had a good amount of fun with once I figured out how to take it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Repo Man > Dodsworth
Repo Man > Anna Karenina
Repo Man < The People Under the Stairs
Repo Man < Onward
Repo Man < Destroy All Neighbors
Repo Man < The Blue Angel
Repo Man < Shallow Grave
Repo Man < Fruitvale Station
Repo Man < The Quick and the Dead
Repo Man > Elf
Repo Man > Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Repo Man > My Life as a Dog
Final spot: #989 out of 3985, or 75%.
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