This is a movie review for "Surrogates", released September 24, 2009. I watched this in March 2020.
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Run Time: 1 Hour and 29 Minutes
Official MPAA Rating (According to IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated
Trailer
Notable Cast
Bruce Willis ... Greer
Radha Mitchell ... Peters
Rosamund Pike ... Maggie
Boris Kodjoe ... Stone
James Francis Ginty ... Canter
James Cromwell ... Older Canter
Ving Rhames ... The Prophet
Jack Noseworthy ... Strickland
Plot
Almost everyone now owns a robot avatar that they connect to via a chair, allowing the avatar (called a "surrogate") to go out into the world and do whatever the owner wanted to do in a safe manner. As long as you are connected to the surrogate, you can see, feel and hear everything that the surrogate experiences. If you wanted to be a young woman that goes to a club at night, go for it. If you wanted to be a business man, you could send your surrogate to go to the meetings (with you controlling them, of course).
When a user is somehow killed after his avatar was killed, the police have to go into action to suppress the media and stop the killer. Officer Greer is on the case. How can he stop the killer? Is there a risk to all of the surrogates? Is there a way to save everyone, with or without surrogates?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
4/5 - *SPOILERS* This is a very good sci-fi movie, in my opinion. With the 2020 pandemic behind us as I write in mid January 2021, I could see surrogates being a huge thing nowadays. What better way to be safe from illness than staying home and sending a robot avatar to do your errands or go to work? Of course, with this line of thought, how would the stay-at-home users get immunizations, medical attention, etc.?
Anyways, I liked how this movie brought forward the idea of avatars/surrogates. I also enjoyed the idea of those revolting against the avatars/surrogates. Considering the fact that use of the surrogates lets everyone act like someone they are not (a pretty girl when you're a fat old man, a blond when you're a brunette, etc), I kinda agree that they do seem to minimize the life experience that the human can have. Why not be able to walk down the beach yourself, feeling the sun on your skin and hearing the ocean/lake waves lapping against the shore? Or would you rather do it virtually, even if you are "experiencing" it through the avatar/surrogate?
The story idea is pretty much the plot line, aside the fact that you have both a big company on one side that is rooting for surrogates and a community on the other side fighting against them. There's a lot to be said on the topic of society, safety, technology, etc, but most of them are topics that you need to see to start thinking of them (IMHO).
Overall, I would suggest this movie and I would watch it again. I highly recommend this movie, especially to those that like science fiction stories.
That's my movie review. Thank you for reading! Feel free to leave comments. More reviews to come; keep an eye out.
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
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