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  Review by DirkH ★★ 10

  If ever there was a film with a fantastic premise and an astoundingly bad execution, it's this one. Films like this need more than an idea, actors who go through the motions and a generic plot.

  The two stars are for the visuals, which I quite liked. As for the rest, this film is completely redundant.

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  Review by Jack ★★ 5

  L, Robot

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  Review by MichaelEternity ★★

  The one where Buzz from "Home Alone" saves the world.

  Hard to believe this movie ever happened, this blockbuster-priced sci-fi actioner about robot dopplegangers directed by Jonathan Mostow of "Terminator 3", still a couple years before A-list star Bruce Willis got demoted to rental shelf stooge, and when a derivative futureworld crime procedural quickie like this could still open in 3k theaters nationwide instead of tunneling its way directly into the anonymous Netflix logjam. Some of the $80 million budget is visible on screen with de-aging effects, explosions, car crashes and high-wire stunts, but just like the society in this movie who all get into these hibernation pods so that these automated remote controlled bodies can go out and live…

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  Review by Andy Summers 🤠 ★★½ 6

  Over the years there have been directors who have been celebrated and received adulation from the Academy, and others who have been in the news for other things. Jonathan Mostow was the guy whose name got brought up in the UK's House of Commons for his rewriting of history as the man who helmed U-571, a film, and I quote, "was an affront to the memories of the British sailors that lost their lives in this action", after his film depicted the US Navy capturing a German Enigma Machine during WWII. The only way that that film could have been more offensive would be if Mostow had let Jon Bon Jovi sing in it! He also directed what is considered…

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  Review by Rob Hill ★★★ 8

  Great cast. Excellent pace. Interesting concept, and a competent delivery of said ideas. The ending was a little cheesy, but I still found it effective.

  A nice slice of 90 minute Sci-Fi.

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  Review by Jack Robinson👽 ★★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by sipovic ★½ 3

  Решил отметить день рождения Уиллиса чем-то полузабытым из неудачного предгизерного периода, что могло бы сейчас смотреться бодрее. И вышедшие за два года до перехода Брюса под крыло Эммета "Суррогаты" хоть и стоили восемьдесят лямов, очень хорошо легли в общий нарратив понижения звездою планки во всём.
  Загубившему когда-то третьего "Терминатора" Мостоу хотелось скрестить "Блэйд раннера" с "Матрицей" для чего была использована неплохая концепция: люди из дома управляют своей идеальной робо-версией (тема, работавшая бы в ковид лучше), но сделано с ней было крайне мало, а просто смотреть на засаленные фотошопом головы актеров достаточно быстро надоедает. Ну и полное отсутствие футуристического антуража лишают фильм атмосферы, один нарисованный конвейер с роботами, да пара билл бордов - вот и всё прекрасное будущее. Не может фильм…

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  Review by Ayden The NinjaPirateBear ★★★½

  2009 Ranked
  Non-2020 First Time Watches Ranked
  Directors Ranked: Jonathan Mostow

  I am going to be firing a few reviews out at a pretty quick pace today to catch up before year's end as I am going away for a few days for New Years (although I do have to work and might get time to check in then), and I'd rather start 2021 on a clean slate.

  Enough personal shit, Surrogates is a somewhat underrated, yet still flawed, action/sci-fi film starring Bruce Willis in one of the last good performances he has given, which is crazy considering this came out 11 years ago. After this I have the first RED, Looper and Glass as his other good performances. I…

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  Review by Dawson Joyce ★★★

  Although its interesting premise could've been executed better, specifically in a way that's less generic and lackluster, Surrogates still manages to come out a relatively decent sci-fi thriller with strong performances and some well-put together action sequences.

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  Review by Cineanalyst ★★★★

  In the Eyes of the Beholder

  Sometimes I'm confounded by how others see movies. Take "Surrogates," with its 37% RottenTomatoes score and criticisms of action-flick banality and stupid robot stuff. Indeed, the picture's introduction during the credits explaining the entire scenario as a political thriller was unnecessary and misguided, and if one accepts it on that level, it makes some sense that they'd be disappointed. What I enjoy about it, however, is that it's about spectatorship--about gazing upon movies. Characters see the world through virtual-reality headsets to identify with their robotic avatars much as we follow figures on the screen in dark movie theatres or alone in our bedrooms. Moreover, these robots are the actors' doubles just as film is…

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  Review by Carlo V

  a movie about robot avatars called surrogates where everyone lovingly(?) calls them surries, but everyone's avatars are just ken & barbie versions of themselves……where are all the furries or should I say furrogates?!

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  Review by Filmzeugs™ ★★

  Why in the hell did they make Ving Rhames look like fucking Bob Marley?