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Surrogates

2009 · Movie · PG-13 · 89 min · ★ 6.1 · 41% critics

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In a futuristic world, people mostly stay at home and interact through surrogate robots. When a police investigator is pulled into a case involving the murders of other surrogates, he must leave his familiar routine and investigate in the real world.

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Details
Years
2009
Release date
2009-09-24
Language
English
Rated
PG-13
Runtime
89 min
Critic score
41/100
TMDB rating
6.1/10 (3,442 votes)
About

You’ll probably enjoy Surrogates if you like straightforward sci-fi action with big questions about living through avatars; Not for you if you want deep character exploration like I, Robot or layered mysteries like Terminator 3.

Pros: riveting premise; fast pacing; decent VFX | Cons: weak story execution; CGI budget limits; predictable plot

Themes

  • future
  • clone
  • dystopia
  • based on comic
  • murder
  • robot
  • questioning
  • intense

Cast & crew

Directed by Jonathan Mostow