Surrogates: surrogates are people.... people!!

Surrogates.

I don't remember this movie being in the theaters but apparently it was.

Ok, here's the deal. They invent these clone cyborg dealies that you control, they look like you only however you want yourself to look. You control it from a Matrix-esque chair that you have in your house. So you stay at home all day and your clone you goes out and does whatever it is you do, with you controlling it.

The movie probably could have been like 30 to 45minutes with no commercials.

Basically here's the entire movie *spoilers* included

An eccentric billionaire/scientist makes surrogates for everyone, but then regrets his decision and makes a weapon that kills the surrogate, but it also kills the user (not the scientists intention). So the scientist creates reservations (and using one of his own surrogates as the leader where the surrogates aren't allowed, and basically tries to undo his creations. His rationale is that people aren't interacting on an actual physical level, but rather through the clones. After a virus is uploaded that will kill all surrogates and human users, his hope is fulfilled and the surrogates are destroyed, but humanity is safe.

Meanwhile...... Bruce Willis is an FBI agent investigating said weapon and the murders from it, when he discovers the trails of the scientist and his plot, after a few twists and turns Willis finally has control over killing all of the surrogates or keeping them alive. He destroys them all. Willis also falls back in love with his wife, and there's something about his dead son.

There, I just summed up an hour 40 movie in like 2 paragraphs. It wasn't a bad movie, it just felt a lot like iRobot mixed with Minority Report. Human clones and a rogue ex-cop trying to uncover the secrecy and corporate corruption involved. I mean, ok no it's iRobot and Minority Report and Soylent Green combined, that's basically it, it a Minority Report/Blade Runner kinda world.

It wasn't a bad movie. I keep having to tell myself that. It was just the same old same old, with decent special effects (young bruce willis, which is what he has his surrogate look like, doesn't look like actual young bruce willis, which is weird)

Basically it could have been a short made for tv movie, or a two part movie.... or something.

Earlier today I was thinking about how neat it must have been to have double feature scifi movie nights at drive-ins and local cinemas, Surrogates would have been perfect for that. Surrogates and Pandorum in a double feature, I'd totally pay to see that. I just don't think I'd pay 2000's money for each one separate.

Overall- If you like the other movies I've referenced, you'll like Surrogates,

but Redbox exists for a reason. This is worth a watch.