In From Netflix: Surrogates

There are only two reasons why I would fall asleep on a movie. One, I was really tired; Two, it was really boring. In this case Surrogates is the latter. Set in a futuristic world where humans no longer interact with each other, but through robot surrogates controlled by computers or their minds or something like that (think Avatar but the opposite of awesome) humans don't have to live with fear anymore. Surrogates give them the ability to live out their wildest dreams. The premise for this movie is pretty solid I must admit, I guess it tries to be a commentary on how we live behind our computers, and sure, it has some resonance, but the message doesn't really come across as intended. Back to the story, someone has found a way to kill humans using the surrogates through a device that fries the robots chips therefor frying the brain of the human using it. Since this has never happened before its kind of a big deal, and the person responsible has to be found. This is where Bruce Willis comes in, who tries his best to save this movie, but just cant. The thing about Surrogates is it starts out pretty interesting with some pretty cool ideas but after about maybe twenty minutes in I started to realize that this movie wasn't going anywhere and all the ideas of the film had been burned out. In a Sci-Fi film we constantly have to be introduced to something new to give us a sense of the world of the film. Sci-Fi movies that did that best in recent memory were Star Trek, Avatar, and District 9 there was always something to give us a sense of the world and ground the fantasy of the film in reality. In the case of Surrogates that's it, the surrogate robots are pretty much all we get and the novelty wears off pretty quickly. Another thing is about this movie is, in the end our character really had nothing to lose. If our hero gets to a point where he/she has nothing to fight for then everything the film has worked towards in creating suspense goes right out the window. It's a shame to see a movie with such potential be such a throw away film, but Surrogates just isn't worth the time. I'll give it some credit for it's potential, but if you missed out on this movie, it really wouldn't hurt.

2 out of 5

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one luv, Toinne