Surrogates

Movie: Surrogates

I saw it on: September 30, 2009

Cast: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Francis Ginty, Boris Kodjoe

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Synopsis: Set in the future . . . virtually all work is done by “surrogates” controlled by people (called controllers) who just stay at home with headgear on.  People seldom leave their houses any more – they have their surrogates do everything.  Then a surrogate is killed and something causes his controller to die also.  Bruce Willis plays a detective assigned to investigate.  Naturally, Bruce plays the human as well as his surrogate. 

My two cents: An interesting concept – but a bit too unrealistic.  The cost of such units would be astronomical – yet it seems that everyone is able to afford them.  I also could not get past the technology that would be required to have millions of these things running around linked real-time to their controllers.

Did not live up to my hopes.