If you ever saw the TV show "Chuck" in the fourth season, then you MUST see this movie to understand why Harry Dean Stanton guest starred in this TV show.

Harry Dean Stanton is perfectly cast as Bud, who mentors punk Otto in the ways of the repo man, which usually involves drugs, alcohol and car chases. Throw in an alien in the back of a trunk of a Malibu that vaporizes people and you have one of the great oddities from the 1980s. Repo Man isn't just some offbeat relic from an era that churned out so much cult cheese, it's a brilliantly shot, nihilist comedy that holds up perfectly today. It's also a brilliant debut for director Alex Cox, whose career quickly took a nosedive and never recovered. There hits a point in the last act that throws out any pretense of narrative and goes for broke. It's almost screwball in the way Cox throws everything at the wall and hopes it sticks and most of it does. It's all the characters running amok and while some of it doesn't make a lick of sense, it's all so bonkers you'll have either given up by this point or submitted to just go along with it. Repo Man is a one of a kind classic.

Repo Man which earned 80's cult status, isn't anything to make a big fuss of, but if seeing it back in the 80's, it would a much more positive impact on me. The idea is intriguing. Tough guy, Estevez, the star here, does well. In my opinion, he's an under-appreciated actor, he's much better actor than you think, in front of the naked eye. Is he a better actor than his brother, Charlie? Seriously.... yes. He transforms well into different characters, his career should of gone further, or may'be he decided to give up the acting gig and just concentrate on writing and directing. I'd go with the latter, but he shouldn't of quit acting. In fact he is bloody good in this, as Otto, who unwittingly finds himself, sucked into some repo work, but also falls in love with a weird girl who harbors a secret, involving aliens. Unfortunately Otto and co, repo an alien's car. Whenever someone opens a boot of this car, that someone is only left with their boots as they're body disappears, prefore we see a blinding light and the victim's lit up skeleton, which I found fascinating, although the film I didn't. We have some pro actors too. The actor alien is great, but on the surface RM isn't anything special. It does have it's comic moments (the scene with Estevez and stoned TV. glued parents is a hoot) It's surprising to think Cox followed this up with the much bigger and better, Sid And Nancy. To me RM is small fry, compared to the other, but you gotta start somewhere. Trademark, is ballsy Estevez, calmly retorting, to his new employers, by purposely wasting a perfectly good can of beer. Unforgettable. It's strange how not much happening movies earned cult status like this. It's just a too cool for school movie: That's your answer.

Released in 1984, "Repo Man" is at the confluence of punk rock and generic brands. Starring Emilio Estevez as Otto, "Repo Man" is the hip story of disaffected youth. In the early 80s, men were still wearing wide lapels, paisley ties, and coiffed hair, and our hero in "Repo Man" has a buzz cut and a pierced ear sporting a cross. And when he drinks beer, it comes in a white can that says "BEER," and the can has a huge UPC on the side.In addition to Mr. Estevez, we have the inimitable Harry Dean Stanton and Sy Richardson as Otto's mentors in the car repo business. Otto's fellow repo men are named Bud, Miller, Lite, and Oly. If you can see "Repo Man" on the big screen, I recommend it because the signs in the background are part of telling the story of the punk esthetics, with Mr. Stanton's voice over and Mr. Richardson's smooth lyricism. Read all the signs.Among the strange things about the punk movement is how modern it still is. Compare the costumes here with, say, "Earth Girls Are Easy," a film released four years later. The costumes in EGAE are hopelessly dated, but you'd be hard pressed to put a year on "Repo Man" based on how people dressed.And unlike EGAE, "Repo Man" still holds up. It's a funny movie still.