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Surrogates

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6.1/10 • 3.1K

2009-09-241h 29m

Science FictionActionThriller

How do you save humanity when the only thing that's real is you?

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

Directors
Jonathan Mostow
Writters
John Brancato, Michael Ferris
Editors
John Brancato, Michael Ferris, Kevin Stitt

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  1. Bruce Willis

    Bruce Willis

    Tom Greer

  2. Radha Mitchell

    Radha Mitchell

    Jennifer Peters

  3. Rosamund Pike

    Rosamund Pike

    Maggie Greer

  4. James Cromwell

    James Cromwell

    Dr. Lionel Canter

  5. Ving Rhames

    Ving Rhames

    Prophet

  6. Helena Mattsson

    Helena Mattsson

    JJ the Blonde

  7. Boris Kodjoe

    Boris Kodjoe

    Andrew Stone

  8. Ian Novick

    Ian Novick

    Andre

  9. Devin Ratray

    Devin Ratray

    Bobby Saunders

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John Chard

Oct 18, 2019

7/10

Surrogacy is a perversion. It's an addiction. And you have to kill the addict to kill the addiction. I first viewed Surrogates upon its home format release and positively found it very ordinary. Viewing it again, with focus and in solitude, it proved to be a far better experience. The action scenes are what you would expect for a multi-plex appeasing popcorner, loud, colourful and owing great debt to modern technology. Yet to dismiss this totally as one of those easy money making blockbuster movies is most unfair. Surrogates oozes intrigue, even if it doesn't quite deliver on the smartness written on the page. The idea that in the future robotic alter egos can carry out our everyday mundane functions is cracker-jack, and it opens up a whole can of berserker worms. This is not merely an excuse to have Bruce Willis running around exploding surrogate robots, as much fun as that is of course, there's a deeper emotional core pulsing away as Willis fights the good fight to make sure being human is not cast aside like a thing of the past, that as flawed as we are, hiding away in a surrogate is not the answer. This axis of the story is beautifully realised by the plot strand involving Willis and Rosamund Pike as his wife, with both actors doing fine work to give it the required emotional heft. It may ultimately lose itself to a standard conspiracy plot, but there's intelligence within to make Surrogates a better film than it first appears. 7/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$80,000,000.00
Revenue
$122,400,000.00
Keywords
futureclonedystopiabased on comicmurderrobotquestioning