In the suddenly red-hot sub-genre of body part retrieval , '' REPO MEN '' doesn't really hold up as well as it's competition . Retrieve the minds from the execs who tried to cash in on the heels of BOUSSMAN'S '' REPO : THE GENETIC OPERA ''.
Jude Law is Remy , and Forest Whitaker is Jake , best buddies and co-workers in the Organ retrieval business . They are the Repo kings , and enjoy everything being Kings comes with , until , that is , Remy needs an Organ , aqnd quickly finds that friendship isn't even Skin-Deep .
Liev Schrieber takes some time off from being ' Mr. Naomi Watts ' , ergo , the luckiest man alive , to join Jake in the hunt for the delinquent Remy , who's split with Alice Braga , his love interest and blah , blah , blah ..... we've heard it all before , and not bringing anything other than predictability and flat story telling to the dance , cements this one firmly in the pile of been-there , done-that , re-treads . PASS !!

Man , this is one of those ' I really lucked out ' stories . On the last trip up to the Baptiste Lake Cabin of a buddy of ours , my boy ' Chunk ' had his girlfriend whining the entire ride up that we didn't have any ' good ' movies . Fighting my instinct to throttle her and bury her body in a roadside ditch , we stopped at a ' Mom and Pop ' video outlet close to the area . The only thing that wasn't a rom-com or a shitty 80's comedy , was a little ditty called '' GOOD NEIGHBORS...[more]...

Hey Kids , if wacky , tacky , tongue-in-cheek Horror is your cup o' tea , you're in for a real treat today .
'' THE PERFECT HOST '' from those quickly becoming dependable folks at Magnolia pictures , tells the tale of a wounded , career criminal looking to hole-up for a while , and picking the absolute worst place to do so .
John Taylor ( Clayne Crawford ) is on the run after his latest criminal misdoing goes way off track , and gets him seriously wounded . Having a hell of a time just getting a door to even open up for him proves to be a far bigger challenge than he anticipated , so he ad libs at the latest house , pretending to be a friend of the owners sister , telling the home owner that he just left her in Sydney , Australia , info he gleaned from a post card in the mail box . The home owner , Warwick Wilson ( David Hyde Pierce ) reluctantly admits the suspicious caller once he learns of his Sister's friendship with the man .
Things proceed to go to hell in a hand basket , as Warwick soon proves to be much , much more than anticipated , and John is soon trying to save his own life , wondering how things got so bad , so fast .
With wonderful work from the two leads , and some great writing and suspense , '' THE PERFECT HOST '' is just that , keeping us entertained the whole time we're there .

A crew of successful thieves plan for that one last score , thanks to a former associate who was left behind on a previous score , and was shot and arrested . Stop me if you've heard this one before...[more]...