It was a movie that snowed under by too many problems to overcome, a pretty ridiculous plot being first and foremost on the list. I could never wrap my mind around the idea of a world in which people just want to lie there obsessed up to a computer all day long for days on end. And that's all they do. Every single day, it all seemed so pointless.
In addition, Surrogates doesn't even get the action scenes right. Surrogates movie is not bad, but it’s not good either. It’s another movie that tries to sell us that overuse of technology may be the downfall of humanity. That’s fine, but if the movie wants to make that argument, I’d like to point out the amount of CGI poorly used in Surrogates may add to the downfall of movies.
This movie was ruined for me when it was obvious that just about anyone with a gun could break into the mainframe controlling all the surrogates. The other thing that bothered me is the robots. They had HUGE similarities to the recent movie iRobot which was surely a copy of something else but still played out much better in my mind as a whole. This of course is a warning about how the current state of the Internet could evolve, from people able to do many things online they previously had to do in person, to being able to do their daily tasks from the comfort of their computer.
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