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Surrogates
Product DescriptionHow do you save humanity when the only thing that’s real is you? From the director of TERMINATOR 3 comes a jaw-dropping psychological thriller starring the ultimate action hero, Bruce Willis. In the not-so-distant future, where people experience life through perfect surrogates controlled from the safety of their own homes, murder is a thing of the past. But when a college student linked to the creator of these replicants is killed, one FBI agent must re-enter realit. . . More >>
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about 2 years ago
This was honestly one of the worst movies i have ever seen i saw this in theaters with a few buds of mine this movie made me want to put a bullet in my head. The first time i went to see it i was high off my mind. then i thought id give it another go so this time i went sober. it was still quite possiably one of the worst movies i could have ever seen. im glad that i wasted 10. 50 to see everything that was in the trailer. Go watch the trailer and if your not LOVING and i mean LOVING the trailer then do not even waste your time because i promise you, you will be very disappointed. It truly a sad day when even bruce cant make this movie good. i love him in everyone of his movies and then this P. O. S comes out.
Rating: 1 / 5
about 2 years ago
As Bruce Willis getting older, his movies are not. The Surrogates combines the ruggedness and toughness that Willis enjoys playing with the mellowness of his old age. This movie expands on Willis consistent search for new ideas from traveling out to the space to detonate a threatening meteorite, to traveling into the future to create robots that could perform emotional and cognitive tasks that parallel humans’ yet far exceeds them in immortality.
If the movie could occupy its entire length with excitement, fun, and richness, then five stars is gotten fair and square. Yet, Surrogates also stretched the fiction of the movie “Artificial Intelligence” and similar earlier movies on human robots, by coupling the diversity of urban American culture with the myth of fictional revolution. At least, this movie brought science fiction closer to the streets than other fictions that only meant to capture the imagination and entertain.
Like the developments of the Internet, the Global Positioning System, and the Personal Computers were motivated by military impetus, Surrogates grew in service of the military as immortal beings, yet found greater use in alleviating the feebleness of modern humans. FBI agent Willis’ role comes to play after the main inventor of the robots regretted the invention that did away with his own son. As the FBI came close to disable the virus that plagued the Surrogates and caused accidental loss of lives, the original inventor was dismayed enough with his personal loss and was set to undo his fallible invention. Mayhem ensued as the main electronic code that runs the robots crashes like an episode of lethal and acute virus destroying all the DNA, simultaneously, as the speed of light.
Rating: 5 / 5
about 2 years ago
In World of Warcraft, that bloodthirsty mass of muscle could well be a geeky, bully-bashed highschooler. In Second Life, that cute, bouncy blonde might the chosen face of a fat, forty-something bald guy. People wear masks of various kinds through most of their daily lives, for perfectly good reasons as well as not-so-good ones. Suppose the mask took over, leaving every trace of the actual person behind?
That’s where this movie starts, in a world populated almost entirely by who people wish they were instead of who they are. Even within Willis’s marriage, he sees only the plastic-perfect version of his wife that he wants seen, not the actual, flesh and blood woman he married.
Willis, as he so often does, plays the role of a police investigator. This time, the investigation starts when someone’s plastic public presence is destroyed – no big deal, since killing a remote-controlled robot is only vandalism. Soon, however, it turns out that something terrible has happened, something impossible. The whole world of synthetic presences is under attack without even knowing it. The rest turns into chases, guns, and last minute saves. You know, the usual.
But, as usual, Willis does a pretty good job with the role he’s given. This could have been a much more thoguhtful movie, going deeper into the world of hidden people, but it’s not that movie. It’s good science fiction adventure, with a backdrop of Boston’s “Brutalist” architecture that fits the bleak mood perfectly.
– wiredweird
Rating: 4 / 5
about 2 years ago
Let’s get a couple of things straight: Surrogates is not a bad movie. It is not anything like Gamer, and yet Rotten Tomatoes has a spread of under 10 points between the two. This is a crying shame. With Gamer and Surrogates coming out within months of each other, it’s almost like Hollywood wanted desperately to make a Second Life movie but realized too late that Second Life is no longer cool.
Surrogates has a lot in common with I, Robot and yes, Gamer. Implausibly, the world is dominated by remote-controlled robots, a parallel to Internet avatars. Thanks to these robots, known as surrogates, crime is unheard of and the dream of a utopian society beckons. Of course, not everyone is okay with the status quo, including a radical group known as the Dreads. The Dreads are the underclass, people who don’t believe in a robot-filled reality. Everyone else has become shut-ins, hiding in their bedrooms in their pajamas, living life through perpetually beautiful twenty-something robots.
FBI agent Tom Greer (Bruce Willis) and his partner Jennifer Peters (Radha Mitchell) investigate a pair of murders in which the operators died too. There’s just one problem: there are safeguards to protect operators from being harmed by the death of their surrogates. If word got out that surrogates were not immortal, the social fabric of modern society would fall apart.
On screen, the surrogates are disturbingly perfect. Their teeth is pearly white, their eyes without any hint of veins, their stubble-free skin cheeks are as rosy as a newborn’s. The robots (and thus, the actors portraying them) only move their heads when they talk, even when angry. Sights and sounds are softly muted. Until the real world hits and Greer is forced to come out of his shell.
Willis’ skill playing a sad sack and a scruffy loner are on full display here. Surrogates is as much about the increasing isolation of technology as it is about the wreckage of a marriage. As the stakes get higher, the movie becomes about the broken relationship between a husband and wife who were disconnected from each other long before surrogates were invented.
If along the way it happens to involve some amazing special effects and a lot of cool action sequences, that’s not such a bad thing.
Rating: 4 / 5
about 2 years ago
“Surrogates,” a science fiction film based on a series of graphic novels, is an interesting take on a future where humans could have robotic counterparts, called surrogates, who live life on behalf of their human counterparts. Surrogates are controlled by the humans they represent, and are usually younger and better looking than the humans they represent. Bruce Willis plays a policeman who has not been out in public for years since the death of his young son. His wife, played by Rosamund Pike, is also housebound, and has very little contact with Willis.
When the son of the creator of surrogates is killed, it sets off a chain of events that causes Willis to go out into the world again to solve a deepening mystery that involves the corporation that creates most of the surrogates, the creator of the surrogates, who has turned against surrogacy, and the leader of the anti-surrogacy movement, played by Ving Rhames.
The movie is intelligent, well-acted, and thought provoking. The end solves lots of problems, but also leaves lots of questions that shouldn’t have to be asked. It is an entertaining film, but it could have been better without the plot issues.
Rating: 4 / 5