Surrogates Blu-Ray
Stunning blu-ray disc; story is so-so.Taken from Nick Lyon’s DVD review:
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While the universe is intriguing, “Surrogates” could have used a stronger plot.
Plot: In the future, humanity has opted to let robotic surrogates experience life for them while humankind stay safely inside their own homes. Alas, safety becomes an issue when a dangerous weapon that kills both the human and the surrogate is discovered. Now, FBI agent Tom Greer (played by Bruce Willis) tries to discover who is not only responsible for the deaths, but who made the weapon. What follows is a series of mysteries filled with twists and turns. The movie is based on the graphic novel of the same name.
As you can tell from the above summary, the plot is fairly limited and therein lies the problem. In a movie with such a fresh, inventive, visually engaging, and provoking vision of mankind’s future, one would hope for a meatier plot to go along with it, but that’s sadly not the case here. Instead, we get a cheap and somewhat predictable murder mystery and a rather routine subplot about Tom’s family to go along with it. I’m not staying the story is bad or boring, but I certainly hoped for something more original as there are so many storytelling possibilties with the set-up of this universe.”
Extras on the blu-ray have some short exclusives; ” Deleted Scenes, “A More Perfect You: The Science Of Surrogates”, “Breaking The Frame: A Graphic Novel Comes To Life”, plus the dvd extras “I Will Not Bow” Music Video By Breaking Benjamin, and featured audio commentary by director Jonathan Mostow. A surprising small amount of extras for a blu-ray release these days and no real interactive features.
Bruce Willis fans will enjoy him struggling in the perfect society as he tries to solve the mystery but much more could have been done to give the film more depth.
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