Alright, here we go! First the synopsis! Bruce Willis is back in the new action movie Surrogates, another movie based on yet another comic book. It is the future where people stay at home all day with they hook up to these things that let them control robots that do everything for them. They work, play, have sex, everything. All in all it's in interesting world. The robot version of a person is called their surrogate, kinda makes sense. Well anyway there are some people who don't like the robots and live in little robot free commune with horses and stuff. Anyway, some guy fires a gun at a surrogate, that does something that kills the operator (no it doesn't make sense, I won't try to explain). So good old Bruce in his Moonlighting era bad toupee surrogate goes after the bad guy. Long story short his surrogate gets smushed, he had to go out in person, he stops an evil plan to kill everyone using a surrogate. Oh, and along the way seems to resurrect his marriage.
So how was it? Well, the actors all looked and acted pretty plastic, but hey they were supposed to be plastic. Gritty old Bruce walking around the young beautiful robot people was a bit odd. Overall it was enjoyable, but a bit heavy on the morality of living life through robots is not living life. Yeah, they are right and all, but come on. I just want to see Bruce beat people up, not philosophize. I didn't expect a "yip-pie kai yay" but I did expect a bit more.
So would I recommend it to you? Well, if you like cheesy pseudo action films with a bit of over morality then yeah, go see it. I do have hope that it will be better on the small screen where the fakiness of the whole thing is less noticeable.
If you want a gripping drama, comedy, action or, well, something really good, don't bother. For me the fan of bad movies it was fine, for The Wife, if I were to take her to it, she may consider it grounds for divorce.
-Uncle Walter
I don't blame her. I hate stupid movies like this. Hollywood must be running out of ideas and desperate to use another comic book. What would they do without them?
Just another case of the rich getting richer.
I hardly go to theatres to see movies. Hoyts here is a RIP OFF! Why would I want to pay $18 AUD to sit in a used, disgusting beanbag? It's called the Half pipe, do you have them?
Its just easier to download them at home. Not that I would do that. I barely know how to SMS. :)
Posted by: Olivia | October 02, 2009 at 10:06 PM
She loves futerama? but she'll divorce you over a Bruce flick? yeah, thats a balanced equation....-not-
hehe...
Posted by: C.S. McClendon | October 02, 2009 at 11:30 PM
CS, I LOVE Bruce Willis, and I love cheesy action films, but this does not sound like my kind of thing, no.
Oh, and Olivia, I get horrible (I mean debilitating) headaches when I go to the movies, so poor UW has to go alone now.
Posted by: The Wife | October 02, 2009 at 11:40 PM