Surrogates Critic Reviews
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There's fun robot stuff, some good philosophical ideas, and a brief, nutty Willis-Ving Rhames reunion 15 years after "Pulp Fiction."Read the full review
This represesents the smartest high-budget, high-profile science fiction film to have come along in quite some time.Read the full review
Mostow's smart speculative suspenser imagines a time when people can live through ideal versions of themselves while they sit wired up at home.Read the full review
Surrogates is entertaining and ingenious, but it settles too soon for formula.Read the full review
A reasonably watchable sci-fi B movie, a case of a good director and some intriguing ideas struggling to overcome formula plotting, limp dialogue, and a serious case of the sillies.Read the full review
Half a howler but not nearly funny enough.Read the full review
Relentlessly plods from one dour moment to the next, coming to life only in a late-film car chase that takes the possibilities of a world filled with robots to an absurd extreme.Read the full review
An interesting idea, but unfortunately, the film's narrative and emotional engine operate as mechanically as the titular, dead-eyed glamazoids.Read the full review
A mechanical sci-fi'er absent of logic or emotions. It functions as an expensive place-filler on the Disney release schedule and, as such, will be welcomed by only the least discriminating thriller fans.Read the full review
In this kind of industrial entertainment, particularly one that seems to be missing some connective narrative tissue, it’s hard to know if the writers or the director can be credited or blamed for what’s left on screen.Read the full review
