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Surrogates

2009

Jonathan Mostow

Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames, Rosamund Pike ...

5.6

26,329

Sci-Fi. Action. Mystery Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others’ surrogates. FBI agents (Bruce Willis, 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 purchase unflawed robotic ... [+]

	Author	Review
Australia	Louise Keller Urbancinefile	"High 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"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"An intense and eerily plausible sci-fi thriller. (...) smart speculative suspenser"	POS
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"The filmmakers were too busy throwing together potential blockbuster material to notice all the loose ends and gaping holes in logic."	NEG
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"An interesting idea, but unfortunately, the film's narrative and emotional engine operate as mechanically as the titular, dead-eyed glamazoids"	NEU
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"A reasonably watchable sci-fi B movie"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"A mechanical sci-fi'er absent of logic or emotions"	NEU
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Serviceable sci-fi thriller (...) There's fun robot stuff, some good philosophical ideas, and a brief, nutty Willis-Ving Rhames reunion 15 years after 'Pulp Fiction'."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"In this kind of industrial entertainment, particularly one that seems to be missing some connective narrative tissue, it’s hard to know if the writers (...) or director (...) can be credited or blamed for what’s left on screen."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Entertaining and ingenious"	POS
United States	Dan Kois The Washington Post	"'Surrogates' takes an interesting idea and buries it under clumsy exposition, unconvincing action sequences and a by-the-numbers conspiracy plot."	NEG

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