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Bruce Willis

Radha Mitchell

Rosamund Pike

James Cromwell

Ving Rhames

Helena Mattsson

Boris Kodjoe

Ian Novick

Devin Ratray

Jack Noseworthy

Danny F Smith

Jeffrey De Serrano

Michael Cudlitz

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Andrew Haserlat

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Nicholas Purcell

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Michael DeMello

Ron Murphy

David Conley

Bruce-Robert Serafin

Cody Christian

Todd Cahoon

Ella Thomas

Gabriel Olds

Eamon Brooks

Rick Malambri

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Michael O'Toole

Michael Ferris

John Brancato

Jonathan Mostow

Naomi Peters

Jeff Mann

Kevin Stitt

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Fainche MacCarthy

Virginia B. Johnson

Michelle Lewitt

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Dan Webster

Debbie Cutler

Jeff Dawn

April Ferry

Aleksandar Đorđević

Ben Heald

Jane Jenkins

Anthony Di Ninno

Brian Dinkins

Brian Avery

Allen Hall

Kris Cole

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Jim Ford

David E. Scott

Cheryl Daniels

Raul Hernandez

Emma C. Rotondi

Steve LaPorte

Jay Ferrara

David Blair

Tina LaSpina

Liz Bernstrom

R.J. McCasland

Mark Landon

Natasha Ladek

Paula Dion

Audrey L. Anzures

Jennifer Brown Greenberg

Keith Sayer

Candace Neal

Carla Antonino

Rob Fitz

Malinda Ballesteros

John F. O'Neil

Audra Avery

Stacey Bishop

Robin Brown

Matt Meeds

Al Hobbs

Stephen Christensen

Thomas D. Krausz

Victoria Wood

Charisse Cardenas

Marc L. Fusco

Butch McCarthy

Adam Roffman

Alanna Keenan

Eric Ramirez

Cleo Wang

Nicole Balzarini

Curtis Corbitt

Justin Holt

Ritchie Kremer

Brenden Morrison

Scott Lukowski

Christopher Neely

Rich Andrade

Aimee Butterfield

Noah Dubreuil

Raymond Petrello

Jennifer Gerbino

John Ryder

Timothy Rowcroft

Tricia Turczynski

Andrew Max Cahn

Neil Gahm

Michael Geoghegan

Twig Johnson

TyRuben Ellingson

Nicole Zaks

Zack Gorman

Brian McKenzie

Sara Giustini

Mark Oliver

Michael Ricci

Christopher Sawtelle

E. David Cosier

Stephen Gavin

Jonas Kirk

Ellen Lampl

Michael Potter

Michael Saari

Gordon Tanner

Mimi Watstein

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 smartness written on the page. The idea that in the future robotic alter egos can carry out our everyday mundane functions is cracker-jack, and it opens up a whole can of berserker worms. 

This is not merely an excuse to have Bruce Willis running around exploding surrogate robots, as much fun as that is of course, there's a deeper emotional core pulsing away as Willis fights the good fight to make sure being human is not cast aside like a thing of the past, that as flawed as we are, hiding away in a surrogate is not the answer.

This axis of the story is beautifully realised by the plot strand involving Willis and Rosamund Pike as his wife, with both actors doing fine work to give it the required emotional heft. It may ultimately lose itself to a standard conspiracy plot, but there's intelligence within to make Surrogates a better film than it first appears. 7/10

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-provoking, but it doesn’t fully commit.

Bruce Willis does what he always does, playing the tough, weary protagonist, but there’s not much character depth to work with. The supporting cast does fine, but nothing really stands out. Ving Rhames' presence adds some weight to the film, but the dialogue overall is just serviceable. The score is typical for an action thriller, doing its job without being memorable. The cinematography is solid, with some good action sequences, but it doesn’t do anything particularly unique. The movie is entertaining enough, but if you were hoping for something as layered as I, Robot, this one doesn’t quite reach that level. Still, it’s a decent watch if you're in the mood for a simple, action-driven sci-fi flick.

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