Product Description
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Science fiction film set in a future where humans live in the
safe solitude of their own homes whilst communicating through
robots acting as surrogates. The robots not only carry out the
lives of the humans, they also look like them with an enhanced
physical appearance. Bruce Willis stars as FBI Agent Greer who
assigns his own surrogate to help him inspect the murder of a
college student with links to the creator of the surrogates. As
the complexity of the case intensifies, however, the reclusive
detective realises that in order to have a chance of catching the
killer he must brave the outside world, leaving the safety of his
own home. With the help of Agent Peters (Radha Mitchell), Agent
Greer attempts to track down the killer and uncover the intrigue
surrounding the surrogate facade.
From .co.uk
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Intriguingly scaled more along the lines of a good sci-fi short
story than a steroid-enhanced action picture, Surrogates proposes
a variation on spectatorship-run-amok. In the near future, human
beings need no longer leave their homes: mechanical surrogates,
similar in appearance (but younger looking, fitter, with fewer
s and more hair) can move about in the world on the user's
behalf, following commands and absorbing physical wear and tear.
A cop (Bruce Willis) begins investigating a mystifying case of a
user who died when his surrogate got blasted by a fancy ray-
in the street--that's a definite violation of the company
guarantee. In the course of a trim, sub-90-minute running time,
the Willis character himself is forced to enter the mean streets
in his own -and-blood version, not his surrogate, a move
that puzzles both his wife (Rosamund Pike) and partner (Radha
Mitchell). In the movie's scheme of perfect surrogates and
digitally-smoothed faces, the grizzled humanity of Bruce Willis
comes blazing through; what a to see a battered human in
the midst of the beautiful people. Director Jonathan Mostow
(Terminator 3) gets the world right, but one waits in vain for a
fuller picture of the effects of this surrogate population, or a
deeper study of the creator (James Cromwell) of the technology,
or a reason to get involved in the rebel leader (Ving Rhames in a
fright wig) and his reservation populated by defiant
non-surrogates. Sprinting along as it does, Surrogates doesn't
find time for these presumably crucial details, and the result
feels a little skin-deep. --Robert Horton
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Synopsis
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The filmmaking trio behind the hit sci-fi sequel Terminator 3 -
Rise of the Machines
( http://www..co.uk/Terminator-Rise-Machines-Two-Disc/dp/B000062V8S )
re-team to explore a future in which humans live in isolation
while only communicating with their fellow man through robots
that serve as social surrogates and are better-looking versions
of their human counterparts. Bruce Willis stars as an FBI agent
who enlists the aid of his own surrogate to investigate the
murder of the genius college student who invented the surrogates.
As the case grows more complicated, however, the withdrawn
detective discovers that in order to actually catch the killer he
will have to venture outside the safety of his own home for the
first time in many years, and enlists the aid of another agent
(Radha Mitchell) in tracking his target down. Jonathan Mostow
directs co-screenwriters Michael Ferris and John Brancato's
adaptation of the graphic novel by author Robert Venditti and
illustrator Brett Weldele.
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