Beyond providing an excuse to sometimes wear a creepy wig which Barbie’s boyfriend must want back, why Willis picked the shiny, empty Surrogates as his sci-fi return isn’t clear from the tepid results on screen.
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09/24/09
Surrogates (2009)
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Reviews Counted:103
Fresh:41
Rotten:62
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.
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $38,542,418
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 CriticHigh concept and high budget, Surrogates adds astounding techno magic to ideas mooted in films like Multiplicity, Total Recall and I Robot, but fails to achieve the humanity the film champions
09/23/09
Top CriticA smart little genre outing, an endangered species in modern Hollywood. [Blu-ray]
02/04/10
Surrogates establishes an intriguing premise for exploring a world in which virtual life trumps physical reality, but the thematic potential is squandered in favor of a by-the-numbers police procedural.
01/31/10
Yetta nudder cautionary tale issuing dire warnings about the pitfalls of technology run amuck.
01/22/10
Sure, it's made capably, in a technical sense. But it's banal, utterly predictable and often quite stupid.
01/19/10
I would have liked to explore this world more and not keep slamming into some convoluted scheme that defeats its own purpose. I had fun watching it, but I actually thought the movie was smarter than its plot.
12/15/09
full review at Movies for the Masses
12/10/09
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
The problem with the movie is that while the action is swift, the set design is polished and the running time is enjoyably lean, the film leaves behind too many unanswered questions in its quest to drive the action forward.
10/03/09
This movie does what science fiction is supposed to do, but seldom does anymore, it makes a comment about today's society by taking current trends and carrying them to a profound technological conclusion.
10/02/09
The provocative Philip K. Dick-like premise deserves better than this warmed-over apocalyptic murder mystery.
09/30/09
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