Surrogates

             What do you think the world would be like if you never had to leave your house? Better? Worse? Safer? Could you learn to adjust to a life like that? These are all thoughts that are provoked by the movie Surrogates. Surrogates is a sci-fi, action, thriller based off of a comic book series. It stars Bruce Willis as FBI Agent Tom Greer.
              In this world, almost everyone lives through a surrogate. A surrogate is a robot made to look like however you want and you control it with your own mind so that you can see, hear, taste, feel, and sense everything the robot does. This allows people to never leave their homes and worry about getting into car accidents or being hurt. This is because even if your surrogate gets destroyed while out in the world, nothing bad happens to you.
               Of course this all changes when two users are found dead after their surrogates are destroyed. These are the first murders in 14 years since surrogates were invented by James Cromwell's (Babe) character, Dr. Lionel Carter. This is where Agent Greer comes in and tries to figure out not only how this happened, but who is behind it and why. Through all of this, the film ties in messages of how hooked people can become to technology and it can't help but make you think about people and their phones today, for example.
                Now with anything that gets many people wrapped up into it, there are others who are against it. And in this movie it's no different. In the film there's groups of people all over the country against surrogates and living your life as a lie. So they live normally together in camps. They are all lead however by Ving Rhames' (Pulp Ficton), the Prophet. His intentions don't seem to be exactly what they seem which is to live a peaceful life. So Agent Greer must go between these two similar and separate worlds to find the truth behind these murders and why they're happening.
               Overall, I thought this movie was better than I expected and heard. Sure it had its holes here and there, but it kept me entertained and just when I thought I had the ending figured out it went a different direction. I figure most guys could enjoy this film quite easily, yet it'll probably be a bit more difficult to please the female crowd, but that can happen with this type of movie. However, if it looks interesting to you then by all means see it, you'll probably be entertained.
                I give the movie 2 1/2 stars out of 4 and a thumbs up. This movie is streaming now instantly on Netflix and may also be available through Redbox. Enjoy.

My next review will be on the Bradley Cooper's new movie in theaters right now, Limitless.