Surrogates Reviews
An A-list blockbuster that would fit, damn proudly, on the lower half of a double bill.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2011
Has all the get-up-and-go of a dead battery.
| Original Score: C | Oct 14, 2009
Every sci-fi and action flick clich is crammed in here and Mostow couldn't give a damn if you've seen them all before. He might not do them better, but he'll do them well enough.
| Original Score: C | Sep 28, 2009
If the whole point of this surrogate society is to appear as a perfectly beautiful avatar, why would Bruce Willis choose that ludicrous blond wig that looks like he plucked it off a mannequin at Boscov's?
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 27, 2009
Surrogates is entertaining and ingenious, but it settles too soon for formula.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2009
The premise for this sci-fi actioner makes sense for about four seconds, after which you begin to wonder why everyone on the planet would willingly become a shut-in, how the poor are supposed to shell out for these high-tech androids, etc.
| Sep 27, 2009
Give credit to filmmaker Jonathan Mostow for keeping the movie on track; give credit to star Bruce Willis for keeping a straight face.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 27, 2009
One of the year's more entertaining sci-fi films.
| Original Score: B+ | Sep 26, 2009
While the notion holds promise, the execution is strictly campy and adrenaline-driven.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 25, 2009
Mostow demonstrates an uncharacteristic lack of subtlety throughout that suggests a diminishment of skills for the man who helmed the crackerjack kidnap thriller Breakdown.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 25, 2009
Do the actors sound so robotic because they are playing robots well or humans badly? And did a machine write this dialogue? If so, could we please apply for an upgrade?
| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2009
The film moves along so quickly, and the surrogate world look is so eerie.
| Original Score: B | Sep 25, 2009
Bruce Willis has little to do but hit his predictable marks and mouth the generic dialogue.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 25, 2009
Big, bloated and worst of all boring, it takes its relatively solid B-movie Philip K. Dick meets Japanese anime premise and does very little of interest with it.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 25, 2009
Surrogates creates a world it has little interest in exploring beyond the boundaries set by a fairly dull whodunit.
| Original Score: C- | Sep 25, 2009
Like Blade Runner re-imagined by a twelve-year-old.
| Sep 25, 2009
Imagine that your Facebook page, complete with that airbrushed profile photo, can go out into "real" society and leave you at home twiddling your fingers, living vicariously through it. That's the general concept of Surrogates, where humans stay sh
| Original Score: 52/100 | Sep 25, 2009
The ideas probably have a bit more juice than the movie, but it's still an alert piece of entertainment.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2009
Surrogates nudges the robo-thriller in an interesting direction.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2009
There's enough sugar-rush energy on display to ensure it's never dull.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2009