Poor Forest Whitaker. It's been four years and eleven films since he won the Oscar for 'The Last King of Scotland,' and he still hasn't found that midas touch again.

With his critically panned 'Our Family Wedding' currently in theaters and generating disappointing box office numbers, his latest film, 'Repo Men,' which pairs him with Jude Law, doesn't do any great justice to his illustrious career.

The film, which also stars Liev Schreiber, RZA, Alice Braga, and Carice van Houten, is filled with lots of blood and violence, but fails to establish whether it wants to be a comedy, horror film, or a political thriller.

Set sometime in the future, Remy (played by Law) and Jake (played by Whitaker) are former schoolmates working together at The Union, a company that provides artificial body parts. When the recipients are unable to pay off their debts, in comes Remy and Jake to collects the parts by any means necessary.

When an accidentally causes Remy to implanted heart, he's no longer the same unemotional company man he used to be. So much, that he can't complete his assignments and fails to pay his own bills on time. This leaves his boss no choice but to send in Jake to go in and do what he does best, at cost of losing a friend.

With his wife having left him and taking their son, Remy is on the run and befriends a drug addict (played by Braga), who herself is running from Repo Men. She's still conscious to keep her body parts from being taken out of her.

First of all, Jude Law is no action star like Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Jason Statham, and many others. In one scene where he's having this 'Matrix-like' fight with ten or more repo men, the situation looks comical.

Whitaker, in another attempt to reinvent himself, just looks lost in the sci-fi film. It's probably in his best interest to stick to heavy dramatic projects. Director Miguel Sapochnik gives nothing of value for Braga and van Houten, who was great in the foreign film, 'Black Book,' to do.

If there's any saving grace or measure of interest, it's the movie's soundtrack. With familiar songs from Nina Simone, Beck, and The Mama And The Papas, that's enough to lure any fan in and take one for the team. Unfortunately, for the audience, we can hear the songs off the web instead of wasting money and time to see gifted actors diminishing their talents in such a colossal mess.