
People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates -- sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.... (Full plot summary below)
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People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates -- sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
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| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThis represesents the smartest high-budget, high-profile science fiction film to have come along in quite some time. |
| New York PostKyle SmithAmong cheesy sci-fi movies meant to make you think, I'll take Surrogates over "District 9." Both are highly derivative, but in the course of recombining the basic chromosomes of "Blade Runner," "The Matrix" and especially "I, Robot," Surrogates nudges the robo-thriller in an interesting direction. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThere's fun robot stuff, some good philosophical ideas, and a brief, nutty Willis-Ving Rhames reunion 15 years after "Pulp Fiction." |
| Time OutKeith UhlichWhat follows is pulp made near-profound through director Jonathan Mostow’s sure-handed guidance. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyMostow's smart speculative suspenser imagines a time when people can live through ideal versions of themselves while they sit wired up at home. |
| Salon.comStephanie ZacharekSurrogates stays afloat by not taking itself too seriously, but also by recognizing that a movie about robots shouldn't look as if it were made by one. |
| Village VoiceNick PinkertonWillis is fine, both as his blond action figure (Zack Morris hair) and actual self, in trusty bruised palooka mode. Mostow does good meat-and-potatoes genre work, coherent even when reckless. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSurrogates is entertaining and ingenious, but it settles too soon for formula. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrA reasonably watchable sci-fi B movie, a case of a good director and some intriguing ideas struggling to overcome formula plotting, limp dialogue, and a serious case of the sillies. |
| USA TodayClaudia PuigHalf a howler but not nearly funny enough. |