Surrogates

Bruce Willis is Back in Action in the Adrenaline-Fueled Thriller

Surrogate

Available on Blu-ray™ Hi-Def and DVD on January 26, 2010
"High-Octane Action" - Matt Goldberg, Collider.com

Action superstar Bruce Willis (the Die Hard franchise) headlines another spectacular thrill ride in the gripping film Surrogates, coming to Blu-ray® Hi-Def and DVD on January 26, 2010 from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. Directed by Jonathan Mostow (Terminator Three: Rise of the Machines, U-571), Surrogates is a heart-pounding futuristic tale of splintered identity, treachery and murder. Both DVD and Blu-ray editions come with an array of bonus features that not only invite viewers to delve deep into the darkly imaginative world of Surrogates, but describe how this futuristic idea is not such a far-off reality.

Based on the enormously popular graphic novel created by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, Surrogates also stars Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill), Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible), James Cromwell (Spider-man 3) and Rosamund Pike (An Education).

Synopsis
FBI agent Tom Greer (Bruce Willis) lives in a world where robotic surrogates stand in for people, protecting them from violence, contagion--and the appearance of aging. These picture perfect, real-life avatars--fit, good-looking, remotely controlled machines that assume their operator's life role--enable the population to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. Greer and his partner, Agent Peters (Radha Mitchell), are called in to probe the mysterious death of a college student, whose life ended when his surrogate was destroyed. When Greer's surrogate is damaged in the investigation, he ventures out of his apartment for the first time in decades. In a world of masks, Greer must decide who is real and who can be trusted.

Editorial Review:
I will say I quite enjoyed this movie.  Although by looking at the box office returns I would assume this action sci-fi flick was a total flop. I bet Bruce Willis made more than what the movie brought in at the theaters.  If you sat back during the summer and observed all the billboards, movie trailers and other marketing, Surrogates was promoted to the tilt, the amount wasted on the ads could have fed a country or all of the homeless in the United States (my little opted piece). I am sure this will be a super smash for home release through Blockbuster, Netflix, Redbox and at the stores in DVD/Blu-ray sales. 

The plot is about a world that this freakin lazy and self conscience droids.  Every individual can afford a surrogate… jacked up with computer systems no one seems to leave their house. Everything is great till someone gets killed by wireless death.  Here is what I get without getting too graphic, you have the violence and all the sexual innuendos in this movie.  What can you feel? But that is what the movie portrays, by being jacked up to a computer system you feel and live out your wildest dreams that would never do in your own body. One of the funniest or true life scenes, the computer wiz does not use a surrogate...maybe the programmers, network admins, hackers know something the rest of society is blind to, computers do not run us, we run them.  If you step back to 1995, there was a movie similar to Surrogates plot called Strange Days, but here you jacked into a video of someone elses life and felt their emotions. You physiologically felt the recording….again the theme was action, sex and violence.  As I remember, that movie was promoted to hell and flopped. Same story, and another movie.

If you like these sci-fi flix, you will enjoy Surrogates… I did.  It's not an Oscar winner, don't compare to Die Hard, but it's a cool flick to live a fantasy for an hour.  Our Future…. Can you live without your iPhone or Blackberry?  What's next, Surrogates?

Bonus Features
Surrogates on DVD includes:

• Commentary with director Jonathan Mostow
• "I Will Not Bow" Music Video by Breaking Benjamin

The Surrogates Blu-ray contains the DVD extras plus exclusive bonus features that go into the heart of the film's intriguing premise:

• A More Perfect You: The Science of Surrogates -- The world of surrogates is not far away! Mind-controlled robotics is already in use in today. This featurette explores the realities of this technology and offers an in-depth look into the creation of the superhuman versions of the cast created for this film.
• Breaking the Frame: A Graphic Novel Comes to Life -- A visual exploration of the evolution of Surrogates from graphic novel to major motion picture from the earliest designs and sketches. Pivotal sequences come to life in a dazzling 3-D animated experience.
• Four Deleted Scenes

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