Willis didn't tower this time around in "Surrogates", finding himself second opening weekend with a modest $15 million in sales. It is to be said however that this movie did absolutely everything that a Bruce Willis movie is supposed to do and did it awesomely. Take the half-in-half-out hero who finds himself in the middle of impossible amounts of danger, beat him to within an inch of his life then let him survive and save the day, all while kicking some can.
We find Bruce in the not so distant future, turmoiled by the seperation with his wife through surrogates: remote controlled robots intended to give those with disabilities a chance at a normal life. "What was once the unthinkable has become the inevitable." claims a fabricated interview with one scientists as societies as a whole decided it would be safer and more pleasant if everyone lived vicariously through the surrogates. Unfortunately, Bruce Willis's surrogate looks like a poodle with make-up. In any case our hero rejects the use of his surrogate after a near death experience and proceeds to solve the first murder ever reported through surrogates. This is Bruce Willis, so the world is usually at stake.
Also inevitable are the parallels drawn between this movie and "The Matrix", which oddly enough drags "Surrogates" down instead of boosting it. Apparently the Wachowski Brothers, directors of the "Matrix" invented and now own full writes to "The Machine"and nobody told me. Ordained by their vision of Keanu Reeves in tight leather and cool shades, now any movie in which you enter a computer simulated world is now just a cheap copy of, you guessed it, "The Matrix." "Surrogates" did what it had to do and had a completely different message than the "Matrix". Besides, this film is closer to "i, Robot" than anything else.
Ultimately, I give "Surrogates" a 4 out of 5 and what to bring away from this movie is that in Bruce Willis vs. The Machine, Bruce wins and sue me if you didn't already see that coming.
We find Bruce in the not so distant future, turmoiled by the seperation with his wife through surrogates: remote controlled robots intended to give those with disabilities a chance at a normal life. "What was once the unthinkable has become the inevitable." claims a fabricated interview with one scientists as societies as a whole decided it would be safer and more pleasant if everyone lived vicariously through the surrogates. Unfortunately, Bruce Willis's surrogate looks like a poodle with make-up. In any case our hero rejects the use of his surrogate after a near death experience and proceeds to solve the first murder ever reported through surrogates. This is Bruce Willis, so the world is usually at stake.
Also inevitable are the parallels drawn between this movie and "The Matrix", which oddly enough drags "Surrogates" down instead of boosting it. Apparently the Wachowski Brothers, directors of the "Matrix" invented and now own full writes to "The Machine"and nobody told me. Ordained by their vision of Keanu Reeves in tight leather and cool shades, now any movie in which you enter a computer simulated world is now just a cheap copy of, you guessed it, "The Matrix." "Surrogates" did what it had to do and had a completely different message than the "Matrix". Besides, this film is closer to "i, Robot" than anything else.
Ultimately, I give "Surrogates" a 4 out of 5 and what to bring away from this movie is that in Bruce Willis vs. The Machine, Bruce wins and sue me if you didn't already see that coming.
