Pointless Bruce Willis action vehicle. The "surrogates" look like creepy sex fetish dolls from the internet. The action is also rather lame defeating the whole purpose of the film. The dialog is pretty insipid but that's to be expected from this sort of film.

The idea of putting Internet avatar as a living person waking on Earth is a good one. But if the lead actor is Bruce Willis, the resulting movie cannot be filosofical innerspace exploration, you can assume. Seriously, there was one good moment when Bruce was collecting surrogates with the hood of his car. Nice touch. The flick was mere straight forwards action, but enough entertaining to see it once through. Rosamund was hot again.

I really liked the first half-hour or so, because some of the ideas being brought out were actually kind of fascinating to me. Unfortunately it utterly fails to explore those ideas in any meaningful way. They wasted James Cromwell, too.

Plot holes, poor execution, nonsensical premise, formulaic conspiracy, Bruce Willis' bad hair, an awfully mediocre sci fi movie.

Silly but watchable.

The only thing I can say is: at least this film found something worse than the villain monologuing his way into his own defeat.

Surrogates could have played out better, but I think it deserves a lot more credit than the iRobot comparisons it gets

Difficult to rate. Very original premise, it gave me the same feeling of wtf as watching the matrix for the first time. The execution is not too good, it's got a lot of gaps but overall I enjoyed it. I do hope more movies will be made based on this premise. It has some really interesting features and implications to play around with. Maybe a new genre is born?

If you enjoy this, I'd also recommend The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Xchange (2000), and I, Robot (2004).

Decent enough to keep me entertained. Ain't no Ghost in the Shell, though.

Hollywood can be very persistent trying to push same ideas for the films over and over again. For sci-fi genre it's the concept of the future where people control robots (or other people, like in Gamer) through some link. Stop it already. Matrix WAS cool, but it's time to move on and look for the new ideas. It's hard to say anything good about this particular film. Plot is a mess, acting is poor, sfx are mediocre.

Such a waste of great potential, i was shocked.. The movie had such a shallow and brief look over everything that i got sad. Could easily go over 120 mins but obviously they just went for the box office and fucked up the movie.. Too bad..

What could've been an intriguing allegorical sci-fi mystery quickly turns into a cut-and-paste action flick.

This has some interesting ideas, but still very much has a just-another-Bruce-Willis-action-flick feel to it. I was entertained for the hour and a haft it lasted, but not much more than that really.

Average. The idea is fairly unique but the cookie-cutter execution takes away the novelty. None of the characters make you relate with or care for them. Not much good action either. I'd advise avoiding.

Spoon-fed social commentary. Average story and special effects.

I guess it has some sort of digital communication dehumanization message, but the premise is just too unrealistic to have any real impact in that area. It's sleek and it tells a compelling story given the premise. Plus we only had to watch one robotic super-jumping action scene. I congratulate their restraint.

Worth a watch

Well developed world but a pretty standard cop thriller. The setting was obviously worked on a lot and they give little details that help make a grounded world, but some of the plot elements seem a bit undeveloped. Still good though

Interesting premise but simply delivers a lackluster movie. The twists aren't particularly exciting and generally the movie feels like it has a fascinating world to play in and then gives you a relatively generic action-thriller. Honestly the most memorable moment is a pretty impressive car chase, much like Mostow's other disappointment Terminator 3.

Bleh.

A fantastic premise with potentially profound moral questions is hidden behind the cold, soulless exterior of a thriller that doesn't work too hard (a standard twist) to arrive at a resolution so neat and unambiguous you'd think it was a WWII movie rather than hard sci-fi.

we are on our own...lol

The major conflict solved itself too quickly. Two major problems suddenly merged into one and made everything look sorta silly.

Vicarious living, virtual living, through flawless androids, so that this indeterminate future often bears an eerie likeness to a Ross Hunter production at Universal Studios circa 1959: "Life... only better." The basic situation is confusing enough without the murder mystery and the experimental zap gun that fries not just the brains of the robots but those of the distant humans hooked up to them. What's clear is the science-fiction fundamental of dehumanization and rehumanization.

Not the best sci-fi movie, but still managed to keep me interested.

Better than expected. The awesome premise wins out over the convoluted plot and mostly forgettable characters. It's all in the concept. Even though it's about as subtle as a blunt blow to the back of the head, the criticism of our reliance on plastic surgery, of our ridiculous physical ideals and of our day-to-day life via avatars (or at least non-physical interaction, i.e. Facebook, Twitter etc) are poignant. Overall fertile ground for an even better exploration of the (modern) human condition.

It started of very promissing but failed to keep up this pace. The acting is decent, but the story isn't that good. There are a lot of plotholes and after 45 minutes they take a different swing with the story and actually they messed it up.

Less than it looked like, but still more than average. It was weak ended and cheap plot pointed, the story was basically good outline.

Nothing special

This is another Bruce Willis science fiction movie that is better than I expected but still not as good as his other films.

Just like iRobot, but little more watchable and little less annoying. But nevertheless, not that great, could be sooooo much better.

the plot was decent, but overall lacking and predictable

More could have been done but most of what is here is interesting and at times an amusing look at some of the life we currently live.

This movie would have had a perfect home in the 80s. The droll, seen-it detective story matched with technophobia with huge, gaping logic holes would seem to imply that it's a bad film, but ultimately it remains watchable because Bruce Willis knows how to play vulnerable. The premise is not carried far enough and the ending is too neat. But, otherwise, I didn't hate it, and I didn't feel like my time was wasted.

What you'd expect I guess

Er ganske udmærket, men har passager hvor den bliver for almindelig, typisk for Willis faktisk. Oplægget er godt, men der mangler lige det sidste for at få det til at ringe...