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 SURROGATES
With
Bruce
Willis,
Radha
Mitchell,
Rosamund
Pike,
James
Cromwell,
Ving
Rhames,
Jack
Noseworthy
Written
by
John
D.
Brancato
&
Michael
Ferris (based
on
the
graphic
novel
by
Robert
Venditti &
Brett
Weldele)
Directed
Jonathan
Mostow
In
a
technologically
advanced
near-future,
human
beings
have
opted
to
live
their
lives
vicariously
through
life-like,
pristine
surrogate
robots,
controlled
remotely
by
the
user's
mind
from
their
home.
This
has
diminished
and
almost
eradicated
death
and
murder,
but
also
direct
human
interaction.
A
detective
(Tom
Greer)
and
his
partner
land
a
case
where
the
killing
of
a
surrogate
led
to
the
death
of
the
user.
The
victim
happens
to
be
the
son
of
Canter,
the
man
who
developed
this
system...
More
of
these
cases
turn
up
and
a
crisis
is
at
hand,
leading
to
Greer
going
out
into
the
real
world
to
solve
it
-
uncovering
more
and
more
dirt
as
he
goes
along,
while
stunned
by
the
tactile
environment
from
which
he'd
been
secluded
for
so
long.
An
anti-surrogate
sect
living
in
a
robot-free
zone
may
be
at
the
heart
of
it,
while
the
surrogate
creator
also
seems
to
be
privy
to
more
than
he's
letting
on.
While
this
movie
succeeds
in
parts
(like
visually
appealing
special
effects),
it
fails
badly
in
others
(for
instance
a
small
factor
which
certainly
bugged
me
was
the
miscasting
of
James
Cromwell
as
Canter,
pretty
much
mirroring
his
role
as
Lanning,
the
robot
father
in
the
movie
version
of
I,
Robot...).
While
no
revolutionary
breakthrough
for
the
sci-fi
genre,
Surrogates
does
hold
the
sub-text
of
where
man
may
be
heading
as
each
day
we
become
more
and
more
sucked
into
living
our
lives
on-line,
some
often
using
avatars
which
is
the
opposite
of
reality
(or
at
the
very
least
using
a
very
flattering,
or
well-altered
picture
for
your
Facebook
profile
pic!).
PS.
Unfortunately
Pulp
Fiction
alumni
Willis
&
Rhames
fail
to
produce
an
electrifying
reunion.
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