Confession: I love good sci-fi movies.Surrogates is an excellent sci-fi movie, part Blade Runner (if it's not an act of heresy to liken any recent sci-fi movie to that classic), part Terminator, part Minority Report (although there's no real pre-determination in this one). I should also add the obvious: part Picture of Dorian Gray.
The story is about how humans have developed robot "surrogates" to lead their lives. While these surrogates have better physical and mental attributes than their human owners and operators, it's uncanny how Bruce Willis' surrogate (played by Willis himself) looks 30 years' younger than Willis himself. The makeup and wig do such a fabulous job of rendering him youthful, I wonder why he ever shows up in public with his "I'm not really grey and balding" shaved head.
All he needs now is a good English accent and he'd be irresistible.
What's that? He already is irresistible?
One minor gripe, and it applies to many of these near-future movies (this one's set perhaps 15 years' from now): while robotic technology has advanced dramatically, everyone's still driving the same 2009 Detroit duds.
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