The ideas probably have a bit more juice than the movie, but it’s still an alert piece of entertainment.
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09/25/09
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Surrogates (2009)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:39
Rotten:60
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: Though it sports a slick look and feel, Surrogates fails to capitalize on a promising premise, relying instead on mindless action and a poor script.
Rated: 12A [See Full Rating]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Theatrical Release:25-09-2009
Synopsis: FBI agents (BRUCE WILLIS and RADHA MITCHELL) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to... [More]
Starring: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Reviews for Surrogates
Top CriticAn attractive slice of glossy dystopian sci-fi shenanigans from the team behind Terminator 3 sees Bruce Willis reprising the one-cop-against-the-system role that he could by now play in his sleep. Or even via a remote controlled robotic surrogate.
09/25/09
Top CriticThere's enough sugar-rush energy on display to ensure it's never dull.
09/25/09
Top CriticThe action scenes feel curtailed and a little cheesy, but it has a veneer of day-glo creepiness which holds the attention.
09/25/09
Top CriticToo often it feels like one of the robotic surrogates was left in charge of the scripting and directing duties for large portions of the movie.
09/25/09
A more cerebral thriller than your standard sci-fi fare, Mostow strikes just the right balance between in-your-face action and social comment on technology as a lifestyle.
09/25/09
Wasting the chance to be a great, resonant SF metaphor, Surrogates ultimately proves as bland and empty as its pretty mechanical protagonists.
09/25/09
The beauty of Surrogates lies not so much in the somewhat conventional thriller plot, though it is efficiently crafted and keeps the audience guessing up to the end.
09/25/09
Asimov it isn't but, for crash bang wallop, Surrogates hits most of the right buttons.
09/25/09
Surrogates favours action-packed, empty-headed spectacle over credible, coherent plot and the brief running time leaves you wondering what they left on the cutting room floor.
09/25/09
This disjointed if sporadically striking science fiction gives the impression of having been heavily re-cut.
09/25/09
Seems less like a 21st Century would-be blockbuster than a lost 80's relic only just rediscovered. Either way, we're lucky to have it.
11/24/09
The end result is somewhat underwhelming. It's more of a novella than a novel, and hardly the science fiction action blockbuster audiences were expecting.
11/17/09
...viewers with even a passing interest in science fiction will find something worth embracing here.
11/02/09
Good ideas rub up against bad ideas, and the result is a movie that is worth a look but could have been much more.
10/31/09
This predictable flick executed in a numbingly pedestrian fashion, has slapped a nifty conceit onto its threadbare mystery-thriller plot, but has somehow managed to miss every opportunity to take advantage of it
10/20/09
Has all the get-up-and-go of a dead battery.
10/14/09
Its humanity, some cool technology and Bruce Willis save this film from simply being a compilation of a zillion similarly themed "too much technology" lessons.
10/11/09
SF chillers of the past that warned about dehumanization -- 'Invaders from Mars,' for example -- posited an outside threat; now, in a 21st-century world of plastic surgery and online avatars, the danger comes from within: the dehumanization is voluntary.
10/06/09
Semi-plausible and semi-watchable futuristic (but still looking like today's world) dystopian 'save the world' sci-fi thriller.
10/04/09
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