In Alex Cox's memorable 1984 debut, Repo Man, Harry Dean Stanton inducts Emilio Estevez into the business of repossessing automobiles from their defaulting owners in Los Angeles. The nasty, unimaginative, absurdly violent Repo Men is shot in Toronto and takes place in the near future where Jude Law and Forest Whitaker work for indecent business tycoon Liev Schreiber. Their task is repossessing human organs and mechanical body parts that have been sold on the never-never to people incapable of keeping up their payments. Conducting their work with sadistic glee, they first stun their victims, then use scalpels and hacksaws to execute their tasks. Scalpels lead to scruples, though the obsessive brutality and bloodshed continue right up to the corny, predictable surprise ending.