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Genres:
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Action /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller
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Director:
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Jonathan Mostow
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Actors:
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Michael Cudlitz,
Devin Ratray,
Jeffrey De Serrano,
Helena Mattsson,
James Francis Ginty,
Michael Phillip,
Danny F Smith,
Brian A. Parrish,
Bruce Willis,
Radha Mitchell,
Rosamund Pike,
Boris Kodjoe,
James Cromwell,
Ving Rhames,
Jack Noseworthy
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Duration:
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88 min.
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Rating:
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(6/10)728.5
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Plot Summary:
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People are living their lives remotely from the sanctuary of their own homes via robotic surrogates -- tempting, physically superlative machine-like representations of themselves. It's an supreme world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't obtain. When the primary fratricide in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer (Willis) discovers a never-ending connivance behind the surrogate happening and requisite his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the detective story.
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Surrogates
Robert AbeleTrying to lure the self-hypnotized gamer nation out into the world to see a dystopian popcorn flick that paints Sims-style living as the end of civilization might seem like a fool's errand. And yet here comes Surrogates, a slick sci-fi number that presents a future in which flawless, hot-bodied, chicly dressed synthetic humans do the everyday living/working/playing, their every action neurally controlled by their real-human counterparts, a risk-averse population of shut-ins who've gone to seed. An interesting idea, but unfortunately, the film's narrative and emotional engine operate as mechanically as the titular, dead-eyed glamazoids.
Surrogates stars Bruce Willis as Tom, who in the light of day is a nattily dressed, expressionless robot cop (with...
Surrogates
Claudia PuigHalf a howler but not nearly funny enough, the seriously intended (or at least somberly mounted) Surrogates naturally wants to reap some of the praise and permanent fandom accorded Blade Runner and RoboCop. Instead, it more resembles Michael Crichton's Looker (in which sinister surgery further "perfects" dishy advertising models), one of the more risible misfires of 1981. Despite bumpy execution likely to have detractors yelling "d?©j? boo," Surrogates oozes possibilities. The hook: Even if you or I look like Quasimodo or his female equivalent, technology will now allow us to attach ourselves to machines and live vicariously through our robotic duplicates. We can even take on physical characteristics of someone else of any age if desired. A mix...
Surrogates
In the not too distant future, surrogates are physically perfect robot versions of ourselves that we control remotely from cosy 'stim' chairs, allowing us to experience an idealised life from the comfort of our own living rooms. Bruce Willis has got a bad feeling about this...
If you could look however you wanted to look, what would you pick? If you're Bruce Willis's FBI Agent Thomas Greer, you smooth your sad-sack skin out a little, ditch the salt and pepper goatee, add a full head of blond locks and an anchor man's tan. If you're any of the women in Surrogates, you decide that footballer's wife at a wedding is the way to go. More intriguingly, there's also the grizzled white lab tech whose robotic representative on earth is a strapping black man wh...
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