Metacritic Movie Ratings
Repo! The Genetic Opera Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 50

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck

  This would-be cult film is unlikely to inspire "Rocky Horror"-style devotion.

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• 40

  out of 100

  The New York TimesNathan Lee

  Feels destined to please a campy coterie of fans and no one else.

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• 33

  out of 100

  Entertainment Weekly

  If steampunk bloodbaths aren't for you, it's a long wait for the fat lady to sing.

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• 25

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  The biggest mystery about Repo! The Genetic Opera is why the grisly Goth-horror musical is opening the week after Halloween. The second-biggest mystery is why this unfunny, unscary, preposterous bloodbath about organ transplants is opening at all.

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• 20

  out of 100

  Variety

  So over-the-top it's purple. At the same time, it's not too many lengths of intestine beyond some mainstream movies, "Sweeney Todd" being the most obvious comparison.

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• 10

  out of 100

  Los Angeles Times

  The film is bad -- not good-bad, tacky-bad or fun-bad, just plain awful and nearly unwatchable.

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