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Mandeville Films
Touchstone Pictures
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How do you save humanity when the only thing that's real is you?
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
RalphRahal
Mar 3, 2025 · via TMDB
Surrogates (2009) takes an interesting concept, people living through robotic avatars, and turns it into a straightforward action thriller. The plot is easy to follow, with a few twists along the way, but it never really digs deep into the bigger questions it could have explored. The movie has a polished look, and the visual effects for the surrogates are decent for the time, making them feel just artificial enough. The directing keeps the pacing tight, but the script doesn't do much beyond moving the story from one action scene to the next. There's a moment or two where it tries to be thought-provoking, but it doesn’t fully commit. Bruce Willis does what he always does, playing the tough, weary protagonist, but there’s not much character depth to work with. The supporting cast does fine, but nothing really stands out. Ving Rhames' presence adds some weight to the film, but the dialogue overall is just serviceable. The score is typical for an action thriller, doing its job without being memorable. The cinematography is solid, with some good action sequences, but it doesn’t do anything particularly unique. The movie is entertaining enough, but if you were hoping for something as layered as I, Robot, this one doesn’t quite reach that level. Still, it’s a decent watch if you're in the mood for a simple, action-driven sci-fi flick.
John Chard
Oct 18, 2019 · via TMDB
Surrogacy is a perversion. It's an addiction. And you have to kill the addict to kill the addiction. I first viewed Surrogates upon its home format release and positively found it very ordinary. Viewing it again, with focus and in solitude, it proved to be a far better experience. The action scenes are what you would expect for a multi-plex appeasing popcorner, loud, colourful and owing great debt to modern technology. Yet to dismiss this totally as one of those easy money making blockbuster movies is most unfair. Surrogates oozes intrigue, even if it doesn't quite deliver on the smartness written on the page. The idea that in the future robotic alter egos can carry out our everyday mundane functions is cracker-jack, and it opens up a whole can of berserker worms. This is not merely an excuse to have Bruce Willis running around exploding surrogate robots, as much fun as that is of course, there's a deeper emotional core pulsing away as Willis fights the good fight to make sure being human is not cast aside like a thing of the past, that as flawed as we are, hiding away in a surrogate is not the answer. This axis of the story is beautifully realised by the plot strand involving Willis and Rosamund Pike as his wife, with both actors doing fine work to give it the required emotional heft. It may ultimately lose itself to a standard conspiracy plot, but there's intelligence within to make Surrogates a better film than it first appears. 7/10
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Helena Mattsson
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Jennifer Alden
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Michael Philip
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James Francis Ginty
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Justin Goodrich
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Rachel Sterling
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Meta Golding
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Jordan Belfi
Victor Welch
J.L. Highsmith
Steinberg
Lisa Hernandez
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Kirk Hawkins
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Nicholas Purcell
Pulaski / Commando
Max Murphy
Captain
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Valerie Azlynn
Bridget
David Klefeker
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Chad Williams
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Mike Randy
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Michael DeMello
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Ron Murphy
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Bruce-Robert Serafin
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Cody Christian
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Gabriel Olds
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Eamon Brooks
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Rick Malambri
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Anya Monzikova
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Taylar Eliza
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Melissa Barker
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Michael Geoghegan
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Oliver Wood
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Symon Mink
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April Ferry
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Candace Neal
Hair Department Head
Tom Macdonald
Key Costumer
Carla Antonino
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Jeff Dawn
Makeup Department Head
Alan D. Purwin
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Eric Deinzer
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Frédéric North
Pilot
Roger Dillingham Jr.
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Dirk Rogers
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Eric Bruno Borgman
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Gregg Smrz
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Jery Hewitt
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Wade Eastwood
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Kevin Derr
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Larry Rippenkroeger
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Matthew Taylor
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Mickey Giacomazzi
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Stuart F. Wilson
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Tim Garris
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Colin Follenweider
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Kevin Rogers
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Kelly Cronin
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Simon Crane
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Stephen Nakamura
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Terri Douglas
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Janet Hirshenson
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Michelle Lewitt
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David Nicksay
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Elizabeth Banks
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Carolyn Pickman
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Max Handelman
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Jonathan Montepare
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Nick Glennie-Smith
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Kevin Kaska
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Richard Marvin
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Ben Wilkins
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Hulk vs. Wolverine
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Batman Returns
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Fallen
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The Italian Job
Mission: Impossible III
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
Mad Max
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Fermat's Room
Swimming Pool
Armitage: Dual Matrix
Next Door
Men in Black II
Nighthawks
Red Corner
The Interpreter
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The Toxic Avenger
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Dune
Mudhoney!
2 Days in the Valley
RoboCop 2
The First Purge
King of the Ants
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Judge Dredd
The Good German
Der Tote am Strand
Land of the Blind
Spiderhead
Seven Years of Night
The Juror
Hustle
The Artificial Humors
Against All Odds
Runaway
Superman III
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Werner - Volles Rooäää!!!
Cherry, Harry & Raquel!
The Crow: Salvation
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The Man in the Orange Jacket
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Mercy
No Blade of Grass
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Stolen Life
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The Creator
I, Robot
Divergent
2073
I Am Mother
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Paycheck
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