The latest film from Mostow – the director of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is set in the near future when human beings stay indoors while their surrogates (or avatars – if another film hadn’t stolen the title!), live their live for them. The surrogate has the humans consciousness (signature), are nearly always perfect looking and are replaceable – unlike the fragile human live they imitate. This leads to a near crime and trouble free world.
One day a surrogate is destroyed with a weapon that also destroyed the human controlling it – this leads to FBI agents Tom Greer (Willis) and Peters (Mitchell) uncovering a conspiracy that goes further than expected.
This is a return to action for Bruce Willis which I was eager to see but unfortunately for me ultimately disappointed. I liked the idea of the perfectness of the surrogates – its would be like living in the world of the airbrushed (or second life for that matter), where everyone is slim, perfect skin, perfect teeth, perfect hair and beautiful. Everyone that is apart from Willis whose surrogate has a most disturbing hairstyle that made me snigger when I saw it – hes also notably older than the other surrogates but as its Willis you forgive him.
It’s the story though for me that disappoints, the premise is interesting and I feel so much more could have been done with the ideas that were out there rather than just a run of the mill thriller with a human twist.
Could have been so much more.
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Cast:
Bruce Willis – Tom Greer
Radha Mitchell – Peters
Roasmund Pike – Maggie
Boris Kodjoe – Pike
Ving Rhames – The Prophet
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