I have seen the new Bruce Willis movie, Surrogates, and think one would be better served to wait to see it on DVD. Set in a world very much like our own, the opening sequence sets the timeline and concept of surrogacy, a way by which human beings live their lives through robotic surrogates they control while seated in a control chair in their homes. Based on the graphic novel by Robert Venditti, the movie focuses on Tom Greer (Willis) an FBI agent who living through his surrogate, a slick version of himself, investigates the murder of two surrogate operators through their surrogates a situation that is supposed to be impossible. We find out that no homicides have been committed in fifteen years and the two murders should be impossible given safeguards in the surrogacy software.
What follows is a formulaic plodding story that while it has interesting fx sequences becomes totally predictable and is at times quite silly as we are introduced to a group of rebels, led by a charismatic leader called the Prophet, as well as the creator of surrogates played by genre actor James Cromwell. What looked like a promising piece of science fiction joins other recent disappointments like The Day the Earth Stood Still as remarkably forgettable pieces that could not rise above a weak story and are destined to be in the discount DVD bin. Bruce Willis alone cannot save this dud which
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