Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

bondguy77 this movie is a mess,i can honestly say, very disappointing considering bruce willis is in this.i was hoping for a great action packed scifi film that actually had a great plot,but was wrong,this is one of the worst films i have seen.this film is up and down on action sequences more down of course,it seemed as it tried to through a little action in just enough to keep you interested just to slow it back down.wouldn't recommend it.

juneebuggy I've seen this a couple of times now and while its not a perfect movie I really liked it. Its definitely entertaining with an intriguing futuristic sci-fi world where people no longer go outside but instead live their lives plugged into robotic surrogates which they control from their homes.Bruce Willis plays Greer, an FBI agent investigating the first murder in years. He looks really weird at first, bad wig, strange make up but who you are actually seeing is his surrogate. There are some decent action scenes along the way, cool special effects as the surrogates can do superhuman things and Bruce does a good job playing both. Ving Rhames also looks very cool as "The Prophet" the leader of the resistance. I also enjoyed seeing how people could no longer function in the real world, anxiety, wasted muscles etc.Yes there are some plot holes along the way: the movie states in the intro that with the use of surrogates crime (and disease) go down exponentially. My thought here is that crime and crazy behaviour in general would go up because there are no consequences for your actions as you are just sitting at home living a repercussion free existence. They also state that 95% of the world population uses a surrogate. How are the poor affording these? So yes some plot holes but whatever its flaws very entertaining. I also thought the ending was fantastic. 12/7/15

darth-tobe Science fiction is often used to illustrate current problems. So, this movie seems to be a modern retelling of the story of the land of Cockaigne. And like the medieval stories it heavy-handedly drives home the lesson about the Land of Plenty being a blessing and a curse.To start with, I liked the visual style, how the Surrogates look all polished and seem to correspond to how people would like to see themselves. I also liked the idea of anonymity, that - like Internet avatars - a Surrogate could be anyone and gives you no clue as to who is operating it. Interesting as these premises may be they quickly fell apart. There are so many things that do not seem to make sense, even within the plot's own world.Without giving away too much here are a few points that may also occur to you during the early parts of the film.If people depend on their Surrogates for everything, even household tasks, and hardly go out anymore why do their muscles not completely atrophy? Haven't they watched Wall-E?How could this advanced robotic technology and neural interfaces (Surrogates are thought controlled) have been developed within 14 years (as stated in the opening) and have become so cheap that the average Joe or Jane can afford them? And if so why is this technology not used for controlling other machines?Logically, for every new development there are those that oppose it. I thought they would be like everyone else just that they reject Surrogate technology. Why would they look like survivors of an apocalypse, live in abandoned building compounds, seemingly also reject all other technology and also be armed to the teeth and ready to go to war?And why does the main character have to be coping with some family tragedy only to illustrate that using Surrogates is bad for you?This was the list after about 20% of the film. Sadly it did not get any better. The science fiction setting has not been thought through. The murder mystery tries half-heartedly to be complex but offers few surprises and fails to deliver as little as a plausible motive. Characters just find clues because they do. In the end there is not even enough sci-fi action to support the film since Bruce Willis is not the youngest anymore and also plays a character who is very vulnerable among all the robots. Wait, does that not sound familiar? Actually, quite a number of elements seem to have been lifted straight from I, Robot. The inventor of the robots is even played by the same actor. Maybe that is it: go watch I, Robot instead.

SnoopyStyle In the near future, people use robotic surrogates in place of their everyday life. It started 14 years previously with the work of Dr. Lionel Canter (James Cromwell). Now there is a resistance to their use led by The Prophet (Ving Rhames). Crime has been all but eliminated when the world is full of surrogates. Then people actually gets killed when their surrogates get blasted by a new weapon. FBI agents Greer (Bruce Willis) and Peters (Radha Mitchell) investigate. He's married to Maggie (Rosamund Pike). He wants to take a vacation out in the real world as themselves but she rather use the surrogates since the lost of their son. One of the victims is the son of Canter who had been forced out of his company VSI 7 years ago and is now a recluse. They uncover a vast conspiracy.The movie creates a fascinating world. It's filled with intriguing ideas. I like where this movie is coming from. I do wonder if the movie is better with society stratified between the poor who live in their real bodies and the rich in their surrogates. Instead it's made out to be a choice depending on your viewpoint. The bigger issue is the robotic acting because ... they're robots. There is something disconnected about the unblinking robots. It does allow for some great action but it mostly leaves me cold. As for the ending, I expect something much more action oriented.