At first blush, Repo Men appears to be from the Equilibrium school of sci-fi allegory. For those of you not familiar with that film (and why would you be?), Equilibrium was essentially a bare-bones reworking of 1984 with justice achieved via gunplay. There’s a little more than that working under the hood in Repo Men, even if the end experience is curiously empty. It’s not unlike eating a flavored rice cake: tasty enough at the time, but moments later you can scarcely believe you ate anything at all.
Briefly: In the …