DVD review: Social networking goes too far in cheesy Surrogates – KATU

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Published: January 29, 2010

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FBI agents Greer and Peters (Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell) are assigned to the case and before long (the movie is only 90 minutes) their investigation starts peeling back the layers of a vast conspiracy involving the man responsible for the creation of the robots, the corporation building them, the military, and a separatist group promoting a return to human life. I find it even stranger that able-bodied people would choose to spend a nice sunny day (the entire film looks like a beautiful spring day) strapped to a virtual control panel in their darkened bedrooms. Even if I could accept all that, I just can’t buy the hackneyed, clichéd, and even hokey dialogue spun by writers Michael Ferris and John Brancato (known for the inspiring dialogue in classics such as Terminator Salvation and Catwoman ). Their script is so full of inconsistencies it becomes maddening and you find yourself spending more time thinking about the movie’s problems than the “mystery” taking place on screen. If everyone has a surrogate and murders are a thing of the past, wouldn’t a conventional war be as equally obsolete and pointless? Both films involve people living their lives through alternate bodies, but where James Cameron’s film used cutting-edge film technology and an engaging (if not original) story to provide an epic with a message, the themes of human isolation and fear in Surrogates are buried in an inept film more likely to provide chuckles than reflection. click here to read more

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