Ok, here’s the deal. The power went off. There was fire on the power station. Every household in this city needs to take on turns to get the electricity distributed in their house during the fix and hence the power needs to be taken off on turns with allegedly fair schedule. So, off to the movie theatre I went. I was disappointed that the movie Inglourious Basterds hasn’t played yet. It has been playing everywhere on the globe except in few countries including ours. It is one of my most anticipated movies of the year, since it was directed by my favorite filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, the same dude who made Pulp Fiction in 1992 and Kill Bill in 2003. So I have to wait and be satisfied by the now playing features that is this movie.
Well for a start, this movie sucks on so many levels. It sucks on the action, it sucks on the special effect, it sucks on its actors’ performances, and most of all it sucks on its plot. The basic premise is actually quite intriguing. Having an artificial robot taking your form to perform most of your daily activities on account of avoiding unwanted self accident and contamination as well as avoiding ominous threat seems not bad at all, in fact it’s kinda cool. Like Minority Report, I like a movie that projects what future would be like before the audiences, what advance technology would evolve and be probable to exist in the future, what cool gadgets and how they would impact our social layer in a global scale has always intrigued me. If I would not be able to live long enough to see it, at least I can still sense it thru movies. Minority Report does just that and even give us more, unfortunately that’s not the case for Surrogates. The artificial robot is so kinky suggesting that the creator has strange fetishes. But as I sit thru till the end credit rolled, it is not the case. He is just a sick old man with no clear idea as to why he created it in the first place and how it would do any good to the society. Even it does good thing for the society he nevertheless broke his own integrity by trying to obliterate his own brainchild with no acceptable reason. His character is like a stupid psycho creating a great product only to despise it himself and is a reminiscent of the real life Albert Einstein who regret that he found the basic formula for atomic bomb, but at least Einstein would not have defy his own E = mc^2 formula. By the end, all of them robots were destroyed immediately and simultaneously throughout the land of America. In short, the plot is ridiculous.
The action is too standard. Bruce willis is well … just Bruce Willis. The 54-year old actor seems to have hard times to do all the action scenes in front of the camera that I suspect there were a lot of scene where the stunt replaces him. Generally, he is good playing action hero or tough character, so it’s not him to blame but the people behind the movie should dodge the bullet for creating and selling a rubbish entertainment to us and hence insulting our intelligence and self awareness of good movies. On strong point is that the plot seems intriguing at times and hence igniting anticipation for us audiences, but it never really take off and the filmmaker or the screenwriter were not audacious enough to explore the intensively dark side of the society during the said age. So instead of watching this crap, it’s better to watch Minority Report all over again because it is worth your time more to see one great film over and over again than to see a bad one even only for once.
“Surrogates,” A Buena Vista Pictures release, is rated PG-13, for intense sequences of violence, disturbing images, language, sexuality and a drug-related scene. Running time: 104 minutes. One and a half stars out of four (C-)
-Mulyadi Tjoa, Software Developer @ PT Switchlab Indonesia, Jakarta
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