2009 · sci-fi · action · thriller
Surrogates
Directed by Jonathan Mostow1h 29m2009
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Our read: Surrogates (2009) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
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“You want a brisk sci-fi mystery about bodies, robots, and grief.”
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