I really should have said something about this film a long time as I saw it roughly 4 months ago, and it comes out September 25th, 2009. Especially since it is (or was) one of the summer films I was looking forward to seeing, and was lucky enough to see for free months earlier at a test or publicty screening. Which for those of you who do not live in Los Angeles area is a fairly common thing here, being able to see test screenings of movies for free sometimes months or even years before they are officially released. They offer at least 3 or 4 films to be screened each and every week here in the Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley.
Surrogates the movie is based on a comic book series by the same name, which is mainly for mature readers. While the Disney Film version is slightly tame by comparison, eliminating a lot of the blood, sex and violence of the comic. Especially the amount of Surrogate on normal Human crime that takes place throughout the series. In the Disney version the world as we know it is a lot sleeker and sexier as almost everyone operates in the real world via Surrogates. Aesthetically pleasing androids people or operators use to interact with one another and the general public from the safety of their homes, as pretty much everyone is a Surrogate using shut-in. That is up until a supposed terrorist group figures out a way to kill the Human operators while they are hooked up to their supposedly safe surrogates ( Connections from any Surrogates to their users are supposed to be automatically severed as soon as they experience any significant damage or trauma to prevent injury to their human operators).
When news of human operators being killed via their surrogates spreads, the powers that be, mainly the designers and sellers of the surrogates, are quick to act and suppress the news as best they can ( or manipulate teh truth, as big companies are want to do). Which is what Bruce Willis' detective character is sent to investigate and get to the truth of the matter, all the while dealing with some personal and emotional issues surrounding his estranged wife. Who every day relies more and more on her surrogate compared to Bruce's character (She was involved in an accident and has some facial and emotional scaring and is completely dependant on her surrogate to face the outside world as a result).
I really should have said something about this film a long time as I saw it roughly 4 months ago, and it comes out September 25th, 2009. Especially since it is (or was) one of the summer films I was looking forward to seeing, and was lucky enough to see for free months earlier at a test or publicty screening. Which for those of you who do not live in Los Angeles area is a fairly common thing here, being able to see test screenings of movies for free sometimes months or even years before they are officially released. They offer at least 3 or 4 films to be screened each and every week here in the Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley. 
Surrogates the movie is based on a comic book series by the same name, which is mainly for mature readers. While the Disney Film version is slightly tame by comparison, eliminating a lot of the blood, sex and violence of the comic. Especially the amount of Surrogate on normal Human crime that takes place throughout the series. In the Disney version the world as we know it is a lot sleeker and sexier as almost everyone operates in the real world via Surrogates. Aesthetically pleasing androids people or operators use to interact with one another and the general public from the safety of their homes, as pretty much everyone is a Surrogate using shut-in. That is up until a supposed terrorist group figures out a way to kill the Human operators while they are hooked up to their supposedly safe surrogates ( Connections from any Surrogates to their users are supposed to be automatically severed as soon as they experience any significant damage or trauma to prevent injury to their human operators).
When news of human operators being killed via their surrogates spreads, the powers that be, mainly the designers and sellers of the surrogates, are quick to act and suppress the news as best they can ( or manipulate teh truth, as big companies are want to do). Which is what Bruce Willis' detective character is sent to investigate and get to the truth of the matter, all the while dealing with some personal and emotional issues surrounding his estranged wife. Who every day relies more and more on her surrogate compared to Bruce's character (She was involved in an accident and has some facial and emotional scaring and is completely dependant on her surrogate to face the outside world as a result).
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