Surrogates (2009) DVDRip XviD-iMBT




Ripper ...........: Team iMBT Video Codec ......: XviD
Release Date .....: 12/12/2009 Video Quality ....: ~933 kbps
Theater Date .....: 09/25/2009 Resolution .......: 640x272
DVD RLS Date .....: 01/26/2010 Audio Codec ......: MP3 VBR
DVD Runtime ......: 01:28:36 Audio Bitrate ....: ~159 kbps
Aspect Ratio .....: 2.35:1 Subtitles ........: N/A
Language .........: English Files ............: 49*15MB
Film Genre .......: Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
IMDb URL..........: Surrogates (2009)
IMDB Rating ......: 6.4/10 (16,410 votes)
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Writers (WGA): Michael Ferris (screenplay) & John D. Brancato (screenplay) ...
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Release Date: 25 September 2009 (USA) more
Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller more
Tagline: How do you save humanity when the only thing that's real is you? more
Plot: Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates
Cast (Cast overview, first billed only)
Bruce Willis ...Tom Greer
Radha Mitchell ...Peters
Rosamund Pike ...Maggie
Boris Kodjoe ...Stone
James Francis Ginty ...Canter Surrogate
James Cromwell ...Older Canter
Ving Rhames ...The Prophet
Jack Noseworthy ...Strickland
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Runtime: 88 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix: DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
I went to an advance showing of Surrogates tonight and while it starts out a bit silly I ended up really liking it. The films strives for the mock realism of district nine but ends up falling short of that level of intensity. I have not read the graphic novel upon which the film is based, however knowing it's a multi part graphic novel is a bit odd since the film in incredibly short. I believe it clocks in at less than an hour and a half long. Rarely do I feel that the climax is reached TOO quickly in a film but everything seems to fall into place with little explanation as too how the characters know what's going on other than blind luck.
The movie sees Tom, played by Bruce Willis as a cop whose living through a surrogate. Think i-Robot but with less tension between the humans and the robots. Surrogates function in a way that humans can lie down with caps over their eyes and neurologically control attractive, boring versions of themselves. Curiously, Tom's surrogate is a cop with a blond comb over. Tom however is growing tired of relying on his surrogate. He wants to see his wife more often...his real wife.
In one of the film's many plot holes, a vagrant "meatbag" human (one who is against the idea of surrogates) uses a "device" to kill surrogates which somehow kills humans at the same time by making their brains exploded. If that sounds convoluted...that's because it is. There's many things in this film left unexplained including that aspect as well as the need for surrogates in the first place. Why bother? These thoughts are quickly erased once Tom is on a chase to find out who is trying to kill surrogates and why.
The film has a very fast pace like I said above with from the point of action to the climax very little digression. Within the title crawl you already what surrogates are, what their purpose is and the history of the surrogates. I wish they could slow down a bit and discuss more of the mentality behind the process, but I suppose that's up to the audience to decide.
Surrogates is a film that made me happy to be alive as I walked out and thought about it. It's an entertaining film but I can't help but feel that it falls into the same lines of action/drama/sci fi movies as recent ones like The Happening, I am Legend and i-Robot. It's definitely that kind of movie and if you enjoy that, then it won't disappoint.