“Surrogates” delivers the audience
a boring storyline for what it
would be like if you let robots
control your everyday life. Even
BruceWillis (Die Hard) could not
save this clichéd movie about
human society being overrun by
humanoids.
W i l l i s
plays FBI
agent John
Greer, who
in reality is
a bald,
b e a r d e d
ugly human,
and is unhappy
with
his life and
his marriage
because his
wife and the
p e o p l e
around him
only want to
be seen as their surrogates. But
who can blame them? The surrogate
of Willis’ character is handsome,
with a heavy amount of
makeup to make him seem perfect.
The worst thing about this
film wasWillis’ ridiculous and obvious
hairpiece that would put
Donald Trump to shame.
Willis tries to solve Boston’s
first homicide in years. In the
movie, someone has invented a
weapon that can kill a surrogate’s
operator by frying his brain before
his robot can shut down, which
would seemingly result in the end
of human existence.
The story does a good job in the
beginning, building up the premise,
with how everyone in the
whole population of the world
was registered to use a surrogate,
which causes the takeover. However,
they never explain why the
people would be so willing to give
up their lives, to become shut in,
or even how poor people would be
able to afford such new technology.
Ving Rhames plays the leader of
the anti-surrogate movement, who
Willis is trying to get answers
from to uncover the plot of the
story. Also, another important
character is the inventor of the
surrogate industry, played by
James Cromwell, who is angry
due to the death of his son.
The actual surrogates in the
movie were played by mediocre
actors and sounded very monotonous
in every scene, which didn’t
help pick up the pace of the film.
They all look shiny and, new,
which is supposed to represent a
perfect society
With his charm and wide array
of action movies behind him,
Willis does his best to add
some toughness to this
movie, but falls
short. The director
did little to make
me care about
Willis’ character,
as he played a
gloomy, depressed
cop, a
far cry from his
“Die Hard”
days. Maybe if the main character
had some more cool one-liners, or
better action sequences, the audience
and I would have cared more
about the plot.
In the end, this is just another
typical, if robots-ruled-the-world
movie, which has been done so
many times in Hollywood. Instead
of having the same idea for
a movie over and over again, the
director should have just rented
“Terminator” to remind himself
that he can’t do any better. Oh
wait, the director, Jonathan
Mostow, directed “Terminator 3.”
I would not recommend spending
money to see this in the theaters.
Instead, I would wait until it
is shown
o n
TBS.