Day 78 and I watches Surrogates. Surrogates is a movie about the future and in that future everyone lives their lives through the aid of a machine that they're jacked into. The machines look just like the user most of the time, only younger or thinner or more attractive. It allows people to live their lives almost care free, as what happens to your robot self has no physical consequence on the actual you. Somehow this caused the crime rates to drop to almost nothing. Well, somehow this guy gets a hold of a weapon that shorts out your surrogate and causes your physical brain to melt also. This gets the attention of the LAW and Bruce Willis is on the case. This is kinda just a so-so science fiction thriller. I like how it deals with the detachment or cheapening of emotions due to living life via machine. That's about it, the action isn't anything really special and the story isn't much to talk about either. The movie establishes pretty early that there are people who use surrogates that don't look just like them so every time that comes up and is supposed to be a big surprise it kind of isn't. It deals with the idea from a different perspective than the Matrix or Avatar but doesn't really have much going for it.
2.5 green bloods out of 5
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