Surrogates Movie Reviews

Ready for a robotic Bruce Willis? Not really, specially when the diehard cop has already won our hearts with his superhero-in-singlet status. So, we do feel somewhat discomforted when a flesh and blood Bruce is forced to play battered, bruised, and bleeding too, while being bound to a couch, even as his plastic and metal body double is sent out to save the world. Reason? The real Bruce is too sad after having lost his son and almost losing his wife (Radha Mitchell) to unbearable grief.

Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis, might be best described as an engaging sci-fi thriller set in a near future where humans stay at home and program robots to represent them in the world. Sounds like a swell idea, if you ask me - you get to stay at home and relax and not move an inch, while your surrogate goes out and does your job, even as you control his every action with your mind. What's more you can get a surrogate that's thinner, or younger looking

This is yet another sci-fi thriller, a cautionary tale about the effects of unfettered scientific progress and how it could possibly cause the destruction of its very creators. It's about humans being seduced by the easy life; in an advanced age where the ageing originals stay home, wired-up and vicariously enjoying the life that their surrogates (younger looking robotic look-alikes) live. An ideal world which disintegrates when a rebel gets his hands