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Synopsis: People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates -- sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
Director(s): Jonathan Mostow
Production: Touchstone Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
38%
PG-13
Year:
2009
89 min
$38,542,418
Website
485 Views


You want to kill everyone?

- And that's going to heal mankind?

- They're already dead.

They died the minute they

plugged into those machines.

This is not the solution.

- That's the way it is.

- That's not the way it is!

I had a vision. I was going

to empower the powerless.

To enable other like me to walk, to feel.

- To live a normal life.

- Listen to me! They're going to call you

a murderer! That is what you're doing!

Surrogacy is a perversion.

It's an addiction.

And you have to kill the

addict to kill the addiction.

Upload Complete.

You're too late.

What I've done can't be stopped.

Now you're going to be witness

to the rebirth of humanity.

That's my gift to you.

No! NO!

Selecting All Surrogates.

How do we make it stop?

Bobby it's Greer.

Tom Greer.

How do we shut

this thing down?

All Database Selected.

Jesus... He's trying to kill everyone.

Listen... That thing has just uploaded

a virus into the system that's going to

kill anyone who's using a surrogate.

It's already started.

Bobby we need to

unplug everyone... Now!

Think!

Uh.... Uh....

I... Ok... Move over to

the terminal on the left!

RED253

We can't unplug them

but maybe we can buffer the operators.

Oh God... Ok... we've got 10 seconds!

Ok look... there are three passes.

Type in Tango in the first.

Xray in the second.

Hit Enter.

HIT ENTER!!! What

happe... Ah.. Sh*t!

SHIFT and Enter!

SHIFT and Enter!

Uh... Ah...

Uh... You just saved about

billion lives there.

Ok... Now we gotta keep

the surrogates from getting fried.

Please go back to the first

terminal hit the Enter key.

Hit the Enter key please!

Good... Now press Yes.

So that's it?

Everyone's safe?

- What?

- All the people?

Yes... Yes... Of course yes.

All the operators are safe.

But if you don't press abort, all the

surrogates are going to be destroyed.

We don't have a lot

of time man... Hit Yes.

Hi? Hello? Hit Yes Greer!

Greer I'm talking

about ALL the surrogates!

Wha... What are you doing?

Greer??!!

For God's sakes what

are you waiting for?!

Press the friggin' button damnit!

Freeze!!!

Transmit Complete.

Excuse me.

Bare with us as we're still trying to piece

together exactly what has occured today

There has been a total systems

failure of the central surrogate grid

In every major city on the eastern

seaboard, possibly in the entire United States...

...describing an identical failure

in those cities this is unbelievable...

...no reports of human casualties

the damage appears limited

only to surrogate units...

...thus far, no statements from VSI. They have

not responded to requests for information...

...Paris, London, Beijing

all reporting the same thing...

...there is still no official word when or

if surrogate services can be restored.

It appears, at least for now,

that we are on our own.

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Michael Ferris

Michael Ferris (21 November 1931 – 20 March 2000) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served for more than twenty years as a member of the Oireachtas, as both a Senator and a Teachta Dála (TD). Before becoming a full-time politician, he was secretary to a veterinary practice. Ferris was a native of Bansha, County Tipperary. There, in the 1950s, he came under the influence of the Very Reverend Canon John Hayes, founder of Muintir na Tíre, and adopted many of his ideas for rural development embracing all sections of the community in an inclusive way. He was elected to the 13th Seanad by the Agricultural Panel in a by-election on 23 April 1975. At the 1977 general election, he was an unsuccessful candidate for Dáil Éireann in the Tipperary South constituency, and was also defeated at the subsequent Seanad elections. He was re-elected in 1981 to the 15th Seanad, and returned again in 1982 and 1983.At the 1987 general election, Ferris unsuccessfully stood again in Tipperary South, but was afterwards re-elected to the 18th Seanad, again by the Agricultural Panel. In the 1989 election to the European Parliament he was defeated in the Munster constituency, trailing far behind his Labour colleague, Eileen Desmond, who narrowly missed a seat. However, polling for the 1989 general election was held on the same day, and he was finally elected to the Dáil, taking his seat in the 26th Dáil on his third attempt. He was re-elected at the 1992 general election and again at the 1997 general election, taking the last seat in each case. He died suddenly while on parliamentary business in Lisbon on 20 March 2000. The subsequent by-election for his Dáil seat was held on 2 June and won by an independent candidate, Séamus Healy. more…

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