10 Mediocre Movies Made Awesome By Their Twist

7. Repo Men - Happy Ever After Is Available On Finance

In a world where organs can be bought on finance, and taken away again if you can't pay up regardless of if losing a lung will kill you - two Repo Men take pleasure in their work loan sharking for The Union, a company that manufactures and sells the implants for extortionate fees.

Of course, Jude Law's mind changes when he has to get a fake heart himself, and repo men then come for the organ in his chest whether he's attached to it or not. Eventually, he manages to wipe the debt of every single person under contract from their organs. Mostly so he can live in peace, but also because he owes it to loads of people he murdered, really.

Where the film shines, however, is by then revoking this happy ending to reveal that it's a neural implant from The Union, inserted after he was knocked unconscious in a fight, used to market a new product now available to the masses.

Exceptionally wry, it's an ending that concentrates the entire film's message into one adrenaline shot in its final moments - elevating the movie far higher than it has right to be otherwise.

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