33 of 38 people found this review helpful. The project was conceived by Max Handelman and Elizabeth Banks through Brownstone Productions, and they enlisted producer Todd Lieberman to move it forward. Use the HTML below.

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"[26], Jordan Hoffman of UGO Entertainment gave Surrogates a B+ rating, saying it is intellectually stimulating enough to keep you intrigued while never forgetting its obligation as B movie fun.

People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates-sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves.

(uncredited), Emergency Medical Technician The simple premise and thoroughly conceived world of "Surrogates" manages to override some lousy story lines and character development, but I'm not sure that most viewers who come to "Surrogates" looking for more action and less high-concept science fiction will be able to say the same.The subplots and back stories given to Greer and other characters are throw-away.

Strickland uses the weapon and injures Tom during the chase; Tom inadvertently crash-lands into an anti-surrogate zone known as the Dread Reservation (one of many throughout the US). Tom and his partner, Agent Jennifer Peters, investigate the death of two people who were killed when their surrogates were destroyed at a Fort Point club. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer (Willis) discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must … "[24] Some critics, however, were not too favorable to the film: Claudia Puig of USA Today called it "a poor substitute of sci-fi thriller saying that the tone of the movie is rarely satirical and that it's more concerned with political intrigue involving pockets of anti-surrogate protesters that enjoy bludgeoning the machines.

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Bruce Willis stars as a homicide detective assigned to the very first case on record where the actual human operator of a surrogate died when the surrogate was killed. Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery. The project was promptly scrapped and all prototypes supposedly destroyed.

Touchstone Pictures, With the number of mainstream movies centered around a future human dependency on robots, it would be incredibly stupid if we actually let that happen. Company Credits Ironically like robots, when you boil down the exterior of "Surrogates," it's composed of overused clichés and recycled components of Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick stories. If this is in the future, why are there only contemporary vehicles? He also says, "The concept, based on a graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, would lead naturally to intriguing considerations. .but not too much", "Surrogates: Sci Fi’s Power to Make You Go Hmmm", "Bruce Willis Does Odder Version of David Brin’s Kiln People", "Surrogates: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Review", "Filmtracks Surrogates Soundtrack Review", "Surrogates: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack", "Surrogates Soundtrack Tracksounds Review", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surrogates&oldid=981427110, Films about the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fictional portrayals of the Boston Police Department, Articles containing potentially dated statements from June 2020, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site?

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A law student becomes a lieutenant during World War II, is captured and asked to defend a black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder. A private detective's protected female witness is murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner.

The third domestic weekend release saw a 36% decrease, which was 9% less than its last weekend.

He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed. Filming was scheduled to begin in February 2008 in Lynn, Massachusetts.

It also stars Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, Ving Rhames, and James Cromwell. Shadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code. It's good, escapist fun". Jennifer is murdered in her own home by an unknown man who hijacks her surrogate, and the Prophet orders the weapon delivered to her. These fit, attractive, remotely controlled robots ultimately assume their life roles, enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. | KNB EFX Group, special effects supervisor (as Allen L. Hall), special effects foreman (as Mark T. Noel), special effects technician: K.N.B. An aging alcoholic cop is assigned the task of escorting a witness from police custody to a courthouse 16 blocks away. "[25] Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel gave it a negative review, writing "watchable, but obvious… Surrogates never manages to be anything more than a poor substitute for the real thing.

"Surrogates" is not mindless fun, but it's not artistic science fiction perfected to a tee either. |

Under Disney, Jonathan Mostow was attached to direct the film based on an adapted screenplay by Michael Ferris and John Brancato. Shane Dzicek as Jarod Canter, Dr. Lionel Canter's son. [28], Some critics remarked that the plot has some similarities to David Brin's Kiln People. Tom steals the weapon's codes from Stone, but "Jennifer" escapes with the codes. Surrogates is the fifth film that director Jonathan Mostow and composer Richard Marvin have collaborated on. Surrogates is a 2009 American science fiction action film based on the 2005–2006 comic book series The Surrogates.

Official Sites With Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames, Rosamund Pike. . People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates -- sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves.

Directed by Jonathan Mostow, it stars Bruce Willis as Tom Greer, an FBI agent who ventures out into the real world to investigate the murder of surrogates (humanoid remote-controlled robots). The film's main concept centers on the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase remote-controlled humanoid robots through which they interact with society.

Immediately travelling to Canter's home, Tom discovers that Canter has been controlling not only the Prophet, but Jennifer as well.

[20] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C" on an A+ to F scale.

After a moment of consideration, Tom chooses to let the virus permanently disable surrogates worldwide. He learns that VSI originally produced the weapon, designed to load a virus that overloads a surrogate's systems, thus disabling it, under a government contract.

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(uncredited), Dead Surrogate Under Car [23] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2½ stars out of 4. (uncredited), hair department head: second unit (as Audrey Anzures), special makeup effects artist: mold maker, makeup effects shop supervisor: KNB EFX Group, mechanical department: KNB EFX Group (as Greg Jein), key artist / key makeup effects technician: KNB EFX Group, makeup department head: second unit (as Steve La Porte), mold department: KNB EFX Group (as Jim Leonard), key special makeup effects supervisor (as Gregory Nicotero), makeup effects production coordinator: KNB EFX Group, mechanical department: KNB EFX Group (as Dave Wogh), second second assistant director: second unit, second second assistant director (as Gregory Pawlik), additional second assistant director: second unit, first assistant director: additional photography, art department coordinator: additional photography, leadman: Boston (as John 'Butch' McCarthy), boom operator: second unit / utility sound, sound designer / supervising sound editor, sound mixer: second unit / sound mixer: visual effects unit, special effects technician: KNB EFX Group, special make-up crew: mold dept. The film ends with an aerial view of the collapsed surrogates along with overlapping news reports of downed surrogates all over the world and how people are now "on their own" again. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. Talley's own family is kidnapped and Talley must decide which is more important: saving a family he doesn't even know or saving his own family.

When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery. 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.

Yahoo! There are, however, chaotic forces at work that prevent them from making it in one piece. A Special-Ops commander leads his team into the Nigerian jungle in order to rescue a doctor who will only join them if they agree to save 70 refugees too. Surrogates None here, but a well-calculated exploration of a possible new technology - - yes. Surrogates was released on September 25, 2009, in the United States and Canada. Using Jennifer's surrogate in FBI Headquarters, Canter uses the weapon to kill Stone and proceeds to upload the virus to all surrogates, which will destroy them and kill their operators.

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