Surrogates (2009)
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.
- Jonathan Mostow
- Kelly Cronin
- Lisa Arnone
- John G. Scotti
- Brett Robinson
- Matt Rawls
- Brian Smrz
- Jill K. Perno
- Nilo Otero
- Simon Crane
- Matt Rebenkoff
- Mark Trapenberg
- Gregory J. Pawlik Jr.
- Jessica Franks
- Brandon Lambdin
- Aurora Warfield
- John Brancato
- Michael Ferris
Rating: 6.1/10 by 3125 users
Alternative Title:
Substitutos - PT
Substitutos - BR
Los sustitutos - ES
猎杀代理人 - CN
獵殺代理人 - TW
המחליפים - IL
써로게이트 - KR
Identidad Sustituta - CL
Клони - UA
Замінники - UA
Los sustitutos - MX
偽能叛變 - HK
偽能叛變 - TW
Country:
United States of America
Language:
Français
English
Runtime: 01 hour 29 minutes
Budget: $80,000,000
Revenue: $122,400,000
Plot Keyword: future, clone, dystopia, based on comic, murder, robot, questioning
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
