Bruce Willis stars in a movie with Bruce Willis as Bruce Willis in a movie about a robot Bruce Willis. Ok, that's not exactly it, but it's pretty close. The movie tries to be similar to the Matrix by mixing a deep premise with plenty of social commentary with an action movie. Does it work? Not so much.
The movie is about a society that uses robots that looks like themselves called Surrogates for everyday life, while the real people sit around at home. These surrogates are better looking, super-human robots that make every day chores easier and more important, safer. Once we find out that people can be killed while plugged into their surrogates, the race is in to find out who is killing the surrogates.
If the premise is tough to understand, then it is a good reflection of the movie. It's not easy when surrogates are commanded by different people and people are not who they claim to be. While the effect is kind of interesting, it doesn't lead to much. The film seems to be really proud of the premise as an allegory to the good ol' World Wide Web, and as such, doesn't worry about characters, or much of a great plot.
There is one scene where Bruce Willis's surrogate is chasing down the murderer and the surrogate is armless and bounding from container to container in an attempt to get the bad guy, and at that point, you know you are in for an over-the-top action movie. The movie switches characters between their surrogates and their real conterparts, which really proves the point in the story, it gets old and confusing.
Overall, the movie had an interesting premise that went nowhere, and had characters as boring as the robots in the story. Throughout, you weren't sure who anyone besides Bruce Willis was, and you really didn't care. I got this movie for free through Netflix, and I would have felt ripped off if I paid anymore.
I give it a 5 out of 10
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