This Surrogates Feature Will Rip Your Face Off

Posted by Dr. Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on September 7, 2009

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Maybe it’s because I just saw the B-movie-level bad Gamer from two filmmakers that clearly believe their audience is already having a seizure and plans cinematography accordingly, but this feature for Surrogates looks fantastic. The two movies have fairly similar science fiction elements – namely the use of a real-life avatar to interact in a true physical world. In Gamer, the avatars are played by humans that are controllable remotely by sweaty, sex-obsessed losers but in Surrogates, the avatars are robots.

I was honestly blown away by some of this footage. It looks like director Jonathan Mostow is doing some very cool things – especially playing around with the enhanced abilities of the robots – alongside what promises to be a trenches of thought look at a world where no one interacts with anyone else except through the human-like faces wrapped around steel and metal. With any hope, the movie will be a solid blend of detective story, science fiction and action.

What do you think?


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  • gholson
    I felt like I was one of the few people really looking forward to this.
  • LeeAnna
    I'm going to see it. I am really looking forward to this.
  • Cole, I saw that you tagged "Robotic Face Removal" in the Related Topics area. Is this a subject you hope to delve into more? Perhaps talk about how your face was robotically removed by Robin Williams in Bicentennial Man?
  • bm156
    Looks good. Brings me right back to Xchange (2000) but slightly cooler.
  • Freaky idea!! If you killed a robot then it wouldn't be murder would it, its just damaging another person's property or something isn't it? The whole idea seems a little ridiculous I'm really watching it to see how they pull it off!
  • moviealien
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    yay, cant wait!!
  • n the near future, humans live in isolation and only interact through robotic bodies that serve as surrogates. When several humans are murdered when their surrogates are destroyed, a cop (Bruce Willis) investigates the crimes through his own surrogate.
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