Which Die Hard star returns in the new film Surrogates?
In his lastest role, Bruce Willis is trying to save humanity. This shouldn’t be such a stretch for him, since the number of people he tried to save in each of the Die Hard films grew, correspondingly. Like Officer John McClane in the Die Hard franchise, Surrogate’s Greer is in law enforcement. Greer is an FBI agent forced out of his comfort zone into a world he doesn’t know. The film is action-adventure sci-fi, set in the future. It’s a world where people no longer interact with each other. Instead, they have surrogates they send into the world to conduct their business. When a number of surrogates are murdered, as part of a vast conspiracy, Greer abandons his surrogate to handle it, himself. At 54, Bruce Willis still likes to do his own stunts, and did many of them in Surrogate. It is the 76th film in which the actor appears and he has five more in pre or postproduction. The four Die Hard movies are: Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2 – tag line Die Harder (1990), Die Hard: With a Vengeance
In the glorious future of “Surrogates,” Bruce Willis’s new science-fiction adventure, the dirty work of living has been turned over to humanoid robots. Citizens recline comfortably in their homes, linked remotely to younger, stronger, sexier versions of themselves, who work and play and do all the things that humans once used to do. It’s an entrancing vision: In the future, we can let our surrogates take risks for us, do our jobs for us. . . . Maybe we’ll even be able to let them watch cruddy Bruce Willis movies in our place! As mechanical as the machines at the heart of its conceit, “Surrogates” takes an interesting idea — the triumph of technological convenience over grimy, workaday life — and buries it under clumsy exposition, unconvincing action sequences and a by-the-numbers conspiracy plot. Willis plays FBI agent John Greer; at home he looks like the grizzled, bald Willis of old, but on the streets of Boston his robot surrogate — played by a well-pancaked Willis with a truly u
Movie Review: Surrogates May Bore Even Die-Hard Bruce Willis Fans Washington Post – Dan Kois In the glorious future of “Surrogates,” Bruce Willis’s new science-fiction adventure, the dirty work of living has been turned over to humanoid robots. Sources: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092404020.
In his lastest role, Bruce Willis is trying to save humanity. This shouldn’t be such a stretch for him, since the number of people he tried to save in each of the Die Hard films grew, correspondingly. Like Officer John McClane in the Die Hard franchise, Surrogate’s Greer is in law enforcement. Greer is an FBI agent forced out of his comfort zone into a world he doesn’t know. The film is action-adventure sci-fi, set in the future. It’s a world where people no longer interact with each other. Instead, they have surrogates they send into the world to conduct their business. When a number of surrogates are murdered, as part of a vast conspiracy, Greer abandons his surrogate to handle it, himself. At 54, Bruce Willis still likes to do his own stunts, and did many of them in Surrogate. It is the 76th film in which the actor appears and he has five more in pre or postproduction. The four Die Hard movies are: Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2 – tag line Die Harder (1990), Die Hard: With a Vengeance
In the glorious future of “Surrogates,” Bruce Willis’s new science-fiction adventure, the dirty work of living has been turned over to humanoid robots. Citizens recline comfortably in their homes, linked remotely to younger, stronger, sexier versions of themselves, who work and play and do all the things that humans once used to do. It’s an entrancing vision: In the future, we can let our surrogates take risks for us, do our jobs for us. . . . Maybe we’ll even be able to let them watch cruddy Bruce Willis movies in our place! As mechanical as the machines at the heart of its conceit, “Surrogates” takes an interesting idea — the triumph of technological convenience over grimy, workaday life — and buries it under clumsy exposition, unconvincing action sequences and a by-the-numbers conspiracy plot. Willis plays FBI agent John Greer; at home he looks like the grizzled, bald Willis of old, but on the streets of Boston his robot surrogate — played by a well-pancaked Willis with a truly u
