Science FictionActionThriller

Surrogates

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

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.

Release Date : 2009-09-24

Language :FrenchEnglish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Wintergreen ProductionsTouchstone PicturesMandeville FilmsTop Shelf Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Tom Greer

Original Name : Bruce Willis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jennifer Peters

Original Name : Radha Mitchell

Gender : Female

Character Name : Maggie Greer

Original Name : Rosamund Pike

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dr. Lionel Canter

Original Name : James Cromwell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Prophet

Original Name : Ving Rhames

Gender : Male

Character Name : JJ the Blonde

Original Name : Helena Mattsson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Andrew Stone

Original Name : Boris Kodjoe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Andre

Original Name : Ian Novick

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bobby Saunders

Original Name : Devin Ratray

Gender : Male

Character Name : Miles Strickland

Original Name : Jack Noseworthy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Victim

Original Name : Danny F Smith

Gender : Male

Character Name : Armando

Original Name : Jeffrey De Serrano

Gender : Male

Character Name : Colonel Brendon

Original Name : Michael Cudlitz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Surrie / Greer

Original Name : Trevor Donovan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Landlady

Original Name : Jennifer Alden

Gender : Female

Character Name : Uniformed Cop

Original Name : Michael Philip

Gender : Male

Character Name : Canter

Original Name : James Francis Ginty

Gender : Male

Character Name : Undergrad #1

Original Name : Andrew Haserlat

Gender : Male

Character Name : Undergrad #2

Original Name : Justin Goodrich

Gender : Male

Character Name : Assistant

Original Name : Rachel Sterling

Gender : Female

Character Name : Female Counsel

Original Name : Meta Golding

Gender : Female

Character Name : Female Lawyer

Original Name : Taylor Cole

Gender : Female

Character Name : Victor Welch

Original Name : Jordan Belfi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Steinberg

Original Name : J.L. Highsmith

Gender : Male

Character Name : Female Newscaster

Original Name : Lisa Hernandez

Gender : Male

Character Name : Male Newscaster

Original Name : Kirk Hawkins

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pulaski / Commando

Original Name : Nicholas Purcell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Captain

Original Name : Max Murphy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lopez

Original Name : Victor Webster

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bridget

Original Name : Valerie Azlynn

Gender : Female

Character Name : Cop

Original Name : David Klefeker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Salesman

Original Name : Chad Williams

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hunk

Original Name : Mike Randy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gate Guard

Original Name : Michael DeMello

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pedestrian

Original Name : Ron Murphy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Miller

Original Name : David Conley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bud

Original Name : Bruce-Robert Serafin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Boy Canter

Original Name : Cody Christian

Gender : Male

Character Name : Brian

Original Name : Todd Cahoon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lisa

Original Name : Ella Thomas

Gender : Female

Character Name : Agent #1

Original Name : Gabriel Olds

Gender : Male

Character Name : Agent #2

Original Name : Eamon Brooks

Gender : Male

Character Name : Clerk

Original Name : Rick Malambri

Gender : Male

Character Name : Beautiful Woman

Original Name : Anya Monzikova

Gender : Female

Character Name : Receptionist

Original Name : Taylar Eliza

Gender : Female

Character Name : Surrogate (uncredited)

Original Name : Melissa Barker

Gender : Female

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

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