Review of Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) by Ben C — 09 Jun 2012

I had such high expectations for this movie. I wanted a Rocky Horror for the new generation with a nice dark scifi twist but was greatly disappointed. Firstly, the style which seemed at first so cool quickly turned out to be shallow goth blah.

The acting was horrible all around, not helped in the slightest by a certain Hilton's thankfully brief contribution. And for a movie with "opera" in the title, the music was simply horrible. Not a single good song throughout the piece and most of it was just crappy dialogue set to a repetitive melody. Only the Repoman himself even approached a decent performance at any point. However, nothing could help this movie from being a complete failure in pretty much every way. I can't think of any truly good things about the film.