Surrogates

Synopsis: In the near future, humans live in isolation and only interact through robotic bodies that serve as surrogates. When several humans are murdered when their surrogates are destroyed, a cop investigates the crimes through his own surrogate. After a near fatal encounter, the cop's surrogate is destroyed and forces him to bring his human form out of isolation and unravel a conspiracy behind the crimes.

Rating: PG-13

Run Time: 104 Minutes

Director: Jonathan Mostow

Dvd Extra's: Commentary with director Jonathan Mostow, I Will Not Bow music video by Breaking Benjamin, A More Perfect You: The Science of Surrogates, Breaking the Frame: A Graphic Novel Comes to Life, Four Deleted Scenes.

Nudity Factor: None.

Of Note: During the opening montage showing the development of the surrogates, there is a shot of an Asian man with an android twin. This is actually footage of Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University and his creation - Geminoid, a prototype android double of himself.

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Trailer: Surrogates Trailer

Review by: Jason James Rating:

I think 20 years down the road this film will be looked back up a lot like how we look back upon Soylent Green. The story follows an officer that is investigating a crime were people are being killed through there surrogates. What that means is almost everyone has a robot that represents them and does all the work while they sit in a booth and control it. People don't leave there homes, don't interact unless through there robots, etc.. The crime rate has plummeted until a weapon was built that can kill the actual person behind the robot. Bruce Willis plays the main character and as always he does a great job in the role of a tough neck officer that is not afraid to mix it up a bit. The story itself seems to take forever to get going. I understand that you need the slow start to setup this future world and how we got to that point. It just seemed like it could have been done a little better and moved on a little faster. Once the main part of the story gets going the movie becomes fairly fun to watch. Once again a big part of this is because of the work the Bruce Willis does. The special effects at times seemed like something you would have seen in the early 1990's but I kind of liked that. Overall I enjoyed the film once we got over the slow start and really go into the film.