Surrogates Reviews

Underneath its typical Hollywood exterior there is a decent movie waiting to shine through. But so much else is just typical of the genre, it's hard to summon any more enjoyment from it.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 6/10

Fails to land a killing blow that pays off the simplified mystery with any distinct urgency. It's a flawed film, but far from unbearable. Nothing a DVD director's cut couldn't fix.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: C

A film that raises many interesting ideas but follows through on few of them.

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I wish I had a surrogate to watch it for me.

Full Review | Comments (6) | Original Score: 1/5

A smart little genre outing, an endangered species in modern Hollywood. [Blu-ray]

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3/4

Surrogates establishes an intriguing premise for exploring a world in which virtual life trumps physical reality, but the thematic potential is squandered in favor of a by-the-numbers police procedural.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: C

Yetta nudder cautionary tale issuing dire warnings about the pitfalls of technology run amuck.

Full Review | Comments (3) | Original Score: 1.5/4

Sure, it's made capably, in a technical sense. But it's banal, utterly predictable and often quite stupid.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 63/100

I would have liked to explore this world more and not keep slamming into some convoluted scheme that defeats its own purpose. I had fun watching it, but I actually thought the movie was smarter than its plot.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3.5/5

full review at Movies for the Masses

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2.5/5

Seems less like a 21st Century would-be blockbuster than a lost 80's relic only just rediscovered. Either way, we're lucky to have it.

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The end result is somewhat underwhelming. It's more of a novella than a novel, and hardly the science fiction action blockbuster audiences were expecting.

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...viewers with even a passing interest in science fiction will find something worth embracing here.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2.5/4

Good ideas rub up against bad ideas, and the result is a movie that is worth a look but could have been much more.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2/4

This predictable flick executed in a numbingly pedestrian fashion, has slapped a nifty conceit onto its threadbare mystery-thriller plot, but has somehow managed to miss every opportunity to take advantage of it

Full Review | Comment (1) | Original Score: 2/5

Has all the get-up-and-go of a dead battery.

Full Review | Comment (1) | Original Score: C

Its humanity, some cool technology and Bruce Willis save this film from simply being a compilation of a zillion similarly themed "too much technology" lessons.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: C+

SF chillers of the past that warned about dehumanization -- 'Invaders from Mars,' for example -- posited an outside threat; now, in a 21st-century world of plastic surgery and online avatars, the danger comes from within: the dehumanization is voluntary.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2.5/4

Semi-plausible and semi-watchable futuristic (but still looking like today's world) dystopian 'save the world' sci-fi thriller.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: C+

The problem with the movie is that while the action is swift, the set design is polished and the running time is enjoyably lean, the film leaves behind too many unanswered questions in its quest to drive the action forward.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: B-