Universal Pictures Centuries ago, the Romans fatally stoned people, if only “because they didn’t have any [access to] guns,” as one character in Repo Men puts it. In the world of the film, however, technology has advanced so much so that a cruel corporation has mastered not only the creation and transplantation of bio-mechanical organs, but also the surgical repossession of them from patients who can’t keep up with the monthly payments. Times have changed, but human cruelty endures.