Surrogates

Genre : DVD ( DVD )
Release : 2010/01/26
Price : $18.49

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Intriguingly scaled more along the lines of a good sci-fi short story than a steroid-enhanced action picture, Surrogates proposes a variation on spectatorship-run-amok. In the near future, human beings need no longer leave their homes: mechanical surrogates, similar in appearance (but younger looking, fitter, with fewer wrinkles and more hair) can move about in the world on the user's behalf, following commands and absorbing physical wear and tear. A cop (Bruce Willis) begins investigating a mystifying case of a user who died when his surrogate got blasted by a fancy ray-gun in the street--that's a definite violation of the company guarantee. In the course of a trim, sub-90-minute running time, the Willis character himself is forced to enter the mean streets in his own flesh-and-blood version, not his surrogate, a move that puzzles both his wife (Rosamund Pike) and partner (Radha Mitchell). In the movie's scheme of perfect surrogates and digitally-smoothed faces, the grizzled humanity of Bruce Willis comes blazing through; what a relief to see a battered human in the midst of the beautiful people. Director Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3) gets the world right, but one waits in vain for a fuller picture of the effects of this surrogate population, or a deeper study of the creator (James Cromwell) of the technology, or a reason to get involved in the rebel leader (Ving Rhames in a fright wig) and his reservation populated by defiant non-surrogates. Sprinting along as it does, Surrogates doesn't find time for these presumably crucial details, and the result feels just a little skin-deep. --Robert Horton

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have to admit the concept was kinda cool but it was a very lame action movie hardly any action in it there were things that didnt make sense like if your using a robot and the other person is using a robot how does that solve anything like wars if someone gets hit u just plug in a new robot or robots having sex with robots how does that do anything for anyone
anyway save yourself the time and skip this movie

This movie was a lot better than I expected. The film takes place in 2017, and everybody uses a remotely-controlled androids called surrogates. Bruce Willis stars as an FBI agent named Tom Greer. Tom is investigating the murder of two people who died when their surrogates were destroyed. How could this happen, and who is doing it? I highly recommend SURROGATES!!!

I was first interested in this movie because of my great interest in Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology". This movie follows the theme of this book, and I loved the film!

Daniel Day or Robert DeNiro never acted in movies like Bruce Willis. And as good as they are as actors, they can never play an every man as effectively as Bruce Willis. I bought "Surrogates" on dvd, watched it, and thought it was a pretty good movie. Bruce Willis is a gifted actor, who plays his roles very well. Willis is able to elevate drama, tension and action to its fullest on-screen.

What a nice surprise discovering this sci-fi gem in our video-shop, fully and masterfully restored.

I saw this movie, starring a VERY young Bruce Willis, with my father in the early eighties.

Being totally freaked out by the movie, my first sci-fi experience at the age of 10 years, I remember my father saying: "You just watch that youngster Bruce Willis -- one day he will be a super star. (Little did I know...)

Only today, almost 30 years later, I can really appreciate the scientific insight the producers showed at the time:

1. Most of the vehicles in the movie resembles 2006+ models -- its almost scary that the futuristic cars that impressed me so much as a kid, turned out to be spot-on in their design.

2. Look out when a memory stick is used with the computers -- what an amazing insight of the designers who did the graphics.

3. Kudos to the make-up-artists who 'aged' Bruce Willis so masterfully that even this Die-Hard-fan cannot tell the difference between the 'aged' Bruce and the present-day-Bruce.

I am just gratefull that the Secrete Weapon to kill off the surrogates, only materialized as a Taser in real life! -- but again, what an insight the writer had into the future.

This movie is a must have in any sci-fi-collection.