![]() This full-blown enthusiasm extends to the movie’s most eccentric bit of casting, Sarah Brightman (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ex, best known for playing Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera”), who, as the mysterious Blind Mag, is the most operatic element in this genetic opera. All the players throw themselves into their parts, so to speak, and given the limited amount of direction going on here, this is probably Bousman’s biggest accomplishment. The same can be said for all the cast - including Paris Hilton, who delivers a limited but thoroughly appropriate performance in a movie in which almost everything is inappropriate. ![]() ![]() Shilo is the emotional center of the film, the innocent who is somehow unsoiled by the dementia rampant in her universe, and Vega gives it her all. Abetted by his demented sons, Luigi (a venomous Bill Moseley) and the mask-wearing Pavi (Nivek Ogre of the band Skinny Puppy), Rotti is evil incarnate, manipulates everyone, and isn’t a bad singer. ![]() start time, and several blaring the soundtrack and singing along on. There were a lot of people in line outside the theater hours in advance of the 10:30 p.m. There’s a truly black-hearted villain, Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino) - owner of GeneCo, the world’s leader in human replacement parts - who has manipulated Nathan into becoming Repo Man, Rotti’s collector of bad debts and the occasional kidney. Repo The Genetic Opera (2008) by Jason Coffman: Film Monthly Home Archives Wayne Case Interviews Steve Anderson The Rant Short Takes (Archived) Small Screen Monthly Behind the Scenes. There’s the guilt-wracked, blade-wielding principal, Nathan (Anthony Stewart Head, of TV’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), a scientist convinced he was responsible for his wife’s death and the illness of his only child, Shilo (Alexa Vega, of “Spy Kids”). In fact, while “Repo!” is set in a futuristic world where replacement organs can be bought - and repossessed, if you’re late on the payments - it otherwise fits quite snugly into a “Todd” template. At the same time, it’s not too many lengths of intestine beyond some mainstream movies, “Sweeney Todd” being the most obvious comparison. Based on screenwriters Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich’s stage tuner, which Bousman directed in Los Angeles several years ago, “Repo! The Genetic Opera” is so over-the-top it’s purple.
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