Bruce Willis

Radha Mitchell

Rosamund Pike

James Cromwell

Ving Rhames

Helena Mattsson

Boris Kodjoe

Ian Novick

Devin Ratray

Jack Noseworthy

Danny F Smith

Jeffrey De Serrano

Michael Cudlitz

Trevor Donovan

Jennifer Alden

Michael Philip

James Francis Ginty

Andrew Haserlat

Justin Goodrich

Rachel Sterling

Meta Golding

Taylor Cole

Jordan Belfi

J.L. Highsmith

Lisa Hernandez

Kirk Hawkins

Nicholas Purcell

Max Murphy

Victor Webster

Valerie Azlynn

David Klefeker

Chad Williams

Mike Randy

Michael DeMello

Ron Murphy

David Conley

Bruce-Robert Serafin

Cody Christian

Todd Cahoon

Ella Thomas

Gabriel Olds

Eamon Brooks

Rick Malambri

Anya Monzikova

Taylar Eliza

Melissa Barker

Michael O'Toole

Jonathan Mostow

John Brancato

Michael Ferris

Naomi Peters

Michelle Lewitt

Kevin Stitt

Jeff Dawn

Todd Lieberman

Dan Webster

Fainche MacCarthy

Debbie Cutler

Max Handelman

Jeff Mann

David Hoberman

Janet Hirshenson

Oliver Wood

April Ferry

Virginia B. Johnson

Aleksandar Đorđević

Ben Heald

Jane Jenkins

Anthony Di Ninno

Brian Dinkins

Brian Avery

Allen Hall

Kris Cole

Kevin Kaska

Jim Ford

David E. Scott

Jourdan Henderson

Raul Hernandez

Michael Ricci

Christopher Sawtelle

Neil Gahm

Michael Broom

Jonas Kirk

Ellen Lampl

Shadya H. Ballug

Michael Geoghegan

Michael Potter

Dawn Marie Richard

Mimi Watstein

Malinda Ballesteros

Nicole Balzarini

Scott Lukowski

Aimee Butterfield

John Ryder

Brenden Morrison

Timothy Rowcroft

Tricia Turczynski

Carla Antonino

Tina LaSpina

Steve LaPorte

John F. O'Neil

Audra Avery

Stephen Christensen

Al Hobbs

Stacey Bishop

Thomas D. Krausz

Brian McKenzie

E. David Cosier

Christopher Neely

Ritchie Kremer

Cheryl Daniels

Emma C. Rotondi

Twig Johnson

TyRuben Ellingson

R.J. McCasland

Andrew Max Cahn

Curtis Corbitt

Justin Holt

Jennifer Gerbino

David Blair

Sara Giustini

Abel Barbour

Paula Dion

Natasha Ladek

Robin Brown

Cosmas A. Demetriou

Matt Meeds

Raymond Petrello

Lorrie Campbell

Charisse Cardenas

Alanna Keenan

Audrey L. Anzures

Jay Ferrara

Jennifer Brown Greenberg

Marc L. Fusco

Mark Oliver

Adam Roffman

Monica Fedrick

Cleo Wang

Keith Sayer

Rich Andrade

Butch McCarthy

Noah Dubreuil

Candace Neal

Liz Bernstrom

Rob Fitz

Science Fiction

Action

Thriller

Surrogates

Wintergreen Productions

Touchstone Pictures

Mandeville Films

Top Shelf Productions

United States of America

Surrogacy is a perversion. It's an addiction. And you have to kill the addict to kill the addiction. 

I first viewed Surrogates upon its home format release and positively found it very ordinary. Viewing it again, with focus and in solitude, it proved to be a far better experience.

The action scenes are what you would expect for a multi-plex appeasing popcorner, loud, colourful and owing great debt to modern technology. Yet to dismiss this totally as one of those easy money making blockbuster movies is most unfair.

Surrogates oozes intrigue, even if it doesn't quite deliver on the smartness written on the page. The idea that in the future robotic alter egos can carry out our everyday mundane functions is cracker-jack, and it opens up a whole can of berserker worms. 

This is not merely an excuse to have Bruce Willis running around exploding surrogate robots, as much fun as that is of course, there's a deeper emotional core pulsing away as Willis fights the good fight to make sure being human is not cast aside like a thing of the past, that as flawed as we are, hiding away in a surrogate is not the answer.

This axis of the story is beautifully realised by the plot strand involving Willis and Rosamund Pike as his wife, with both actors doing fine work to give it the required emotional heft. It may ultimately lose itself to a standard conspiracy plot, but there's intelligence within to make Surrogates a better film than it first appears. 7/10

Surrogates (2009) takes an interesting concept, people living through robotic avatars, and turns it into a straightforward action thriller. The plot is easy to follow, with a few twists along the way, but it never really digs deep into the bigger questions it could have explored. The movie has a polished look, and the visual effects for the surrogates are decent for the time, making them feel just artificial enough. The directing keeps the pacing tight, but the script doesn't do much beyond moving the story from one action scene to the next. There's a moment or two where it tries to be thought-provoking, but it doesn’t fully commit.

Bruce Willis does what he always does, playing the tough, weary protagonist, but there’s not much character depth to work with. The supporting cast does fine, but nothing really stands out. Ving Rhames' presence adds some weight to the film, but the dialogue overall is just serviceable. The score is typical for an action thriller, doing its job without being memorable. The cinematography is solid, with some good action sequences, but it doesn’t do anything particularly unique. The movie is entertaining enough, but if you were hoping for something as layered as I, Robot, this one doesn’t quite reach that level. Still, it’s a decent watch if you're in the mood for a simple, action-driven sci-fi flick.

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