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Surrogates

Surrogates

6,1 /10 (3,441 Votes)
2009 EN 89 min

Overview

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.

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Release date

24/09/2009

Votes

3,441

Popularity

3.7

How do you save humanity when the only thing that's real is you?

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

89 min

Budget

$80,000,000

Revenue

$122,444,772

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John Chard

John Chard

2019-10-18

⭐ 7

Surrogacy is a perversion. It's an addiction. And you have to kill the addict to kill the addiction. I first viewed Surrogates upon its home format release and positively found it very ordinary. Viewing it again, with focus and in solitude, it proved to be a far better experience. The action scenes are what you would expect for a multi-plex appeasing popcorner, loud, colourful and owing great debt to modern technology. Yet to dismiss this totally as one of those easy money making blockbuster movies is most unfair. Surrogates oozes intrigue, even if it doesn't quite deliver on the sma…

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RalphRahal

2025-03-03

⭐ 5

Surrogates (2009) takes an interesting concept, people living through robotic avatars, and turns it into a straightforward action thriller. The plot is easy to follow, with a few twists along the way, but it never really digs deep into the bigger questions it could have explored. The movie has a polished look, and the visual effects for the surrogates are decent for the time, making them feel just artificial enough. The directing keeps the pacing tight, but the script doesn't do much beyond moving the story from one action scene to the next. There's a moment or two where it tries to be thought…

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