Repo Jake [1990]

[Cross-posted on the Bad Movie Night Facebook page.]

Sometimes movies can be so underground there isn't even a Wikipedia page for them. While this is often a good thing in terms of us being fully aware that the movie is low quality before we even start watching it, it can become a real problem when your designated plot follower falls asleep in the middle of the movie and then can't relate the plot to you when the rest of the crew inevitably gets distracted and confused. Such is what happened on this night and it will be my struggle to try to recall what was happening in this film with only one anonymously written IMDb summary for assistance.

That IMDb summary goes like this, "Jake Baxter takes a job as a repoman with hopes of living the quiet life. Plans go sour when he's whipped into supersonic action, involving a vicious crime lord, a mob of angry car owners, a sadistic porno ring and lastly a brutal, illegal and very lethal car race known throughout L.A.'s underworld as the Slam Track." Let's break that down because it is not nearly as interesting as that summary makes it sound. This dude from Minnesota moves to LA to work as a repo man and somehow thinks this will be a nice, quiet change from his surely fast-paced life in the Midwest. Right. Okay. In his first twenty minutes in the city, he beats up a mugger and throws him through the same glass windows twice. The woman who was mugged helps him find an apartment in her building and they get into a relationship in spite of the fact that he never stays through an entire date with her without running off somewhere for no reason. People get mad at him for repossessing cars, the repo men joke around, there's a porn ring (clarification: they are sadistic and make porn; they do not make sadistic porn) who also dabbles in pimping and drugs, and in the end Jake must win a race because a bunch of evil people have bet on him to win. He throws the race for no explainable reason and just solves the conflicts by beating up the bad guys and throwing a party with his coworkers.I'm not entirely sure if this movie was hard to follow because we were all kind of bored or if it was just so nonsensically written and edited that trying to follow the plot was utterly pointless. At least the unnecessary porn ring scenes gave us some good lines.

Quotes:
"Why are they in bikinis?"
"It says so in the script."
"These girls can't read!"

"They're fucking and they're sucking the shit out of each other."

BMN Quotes:
Jake: "Then my wife got sick."
Adam: "So God repoed her."

Spoon Rating: 3

Adam's Grandma's Review: "Passable."