Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
(5 votes, average: 1.80 out of 5)
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Release:25 September 2009
Surrogates is based in a future world where most humans recline at home without moving and live vicariously through their robot avatars which they control from their minds. Their avatars are younger and more attractive and fit than the humans really are.
Bruce Willis, who looks about 38 years old, plays Greer. He is an FBI agent and has a partner Jennifer Peters (played by Radha Mitchell). They are assigned to investigate a murder one night outside a club. They are shocked to find that the murdered person is the Dr. Lionel Canter’s (played by James Cromwell) son. Dr. Lionel is the inventor of surrogate robot technology. But if you’re thinking why he is dead if only your surrogate avatar is killed, then the answer is that the killing device fries the brain of the human controller.
Dr. Canter doesn’t work with the surrogate making corporation anymore. He has been disillusioned with the invention. As Greer’s investigation goes on, it takes him to the world of Dreads. Dreads are the actual humans who reject the surrogates and live separately with other people. The leader of the Dread is The Prophet (played by Ving Rhames), who against the avatars.
But something is wrong with Greer’s avatar and he has to come out on the streets as himself. The real Greer is middle-aged, bald, but looks more attractive than the creepy surrogate. Unfortunately, Surrogates, goes on to be more ambitious than it needs to be and starts with action scenes too soon.
In this future world, crime and racism have been eliminated. Well, we can understand that if anybody can be the race of their choice, that does takes care of the problem of racism. But how do these poor and unemployed people pay for their surrogate robots? What happens when the surrogates have a meal together? Can they actually eat or drink? What happens to the people who spend their life reclining? The avatars can mate, but what are the condition of hormones in the body of humans controlling them?
These and loads of other questions Surrogates, perhaps intelligently, doesn’t explore or even tries to answer. Such a movie might have required a Guy Maddin or Spike Jonze. Surrogates is an ingenious and entertaining movie, but it settles in the formula way too soon.
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