Surrogates (2009) (R)
Directed by Jonathan Mostow
Starring: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe
Daughter Says:
Surrogates is about the human race taking another step into technology. You had the ipod, the iphone, the ipad, but now you can have your very own irobot. Oh wait that's another movie.
This movie had the same basics as I Robot, but I Robot pulled it off so much better. People are now replaced by better looking robots. You can be anyone you want at apparently any time. Living in hiding all their lives, this movie follows an investigator named Tom Greer, played by Bruce Willis, who gets into a mad chase after a suspected criminal when the anti-robot group kills his surrogate. Now stuck without a surrogate, Greer must walk among the robots as a human. Still destined to find the murderer of electronics, he even turns against his own team to find the answers
Surrogates was an okay movie with many action parts that involve jumping off of high things and blowing robots heads off. The down fall was it was just an action movie. There weren't many good parts that helped you associate yourself with the character. So when Greer has drama with his wife its not that dramatic. I felt like, "oh this is drama. Oh well, I don't care about his wife or his kids. Hmm moving on." But I think this movie is a train wreck that you would watch, just without thinking.
Directed by Jonathan Mostow
Starring: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe
Daughter Says:
Surrogates is about the human race taking another step into technology. You had the ipod, the iphone, the ipad, but now you can have your very own irobot. Oh wait that's another movie.
This movie had the same basics as I Robot, but I Robot pulled it off so much better. People are now replaced by better looking robots. You can be anyone you want at apparently any time. Living in hiding all their lives, this movie follows an investigator named Tom Greer, played by Bruce Willis, who gets into a mad chase after a suspected criminal when the anti-robot group kills his surrogate. Now stuck without a surrogate, Greer must walk among the robots as a human. Still destined to find the murderer of electronics, he even turns against his own team to find the answers
Surrogates was an okay movie with many action parts that involve jumping off of high things and blowing robots heads off. The down fall was it was just an action movie. There weren't many good parts that helped you associate yourself with the character. So when Greer has drama with his wife its not that dramatic. I felt like, "oh this is drama. Oh well, I don't care about his wife or his kids. Hmm moving on." But I think this movie is a train wreck that you would watch, just without thinking.
Rating for Surrogates: ***
Daddy Says:
So, where to begin... How about the good parts?
Um...
Well, that didn't take long.
Okay, it had a really great premise. I like the concept of people hiding behind robotic avatars that wander the world, living anonymously behind the mask of a very pretty alternate "you". But this film does so little to capitalize on this fascinating concept that it's very hard to go along with it.
There are so many unanswered questions. The film tells us that with the rise of Surrogate use, that both racism and crime dropped to almost non-existent levels. Really? Racism, perhaps, but crime dropped when people started becoming anonymous robots? And how was everyone in the world able to afford one of these Surrogates? More importantly, when does anyone find time to interact on a human level, including such basics as human reproduction? We are told that there are now Surrogates being produced for children, but when exactly are we humans supposed to be producing these children?
I could go on, but I think I've already put more thought into this movie than the screenwriters did. I suppose if you turned off your brain, you could enjoy the mindless action and overlook the extremely poor script.
Rating for Surrogates: **
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