Surrogates with Bruce Willis, James Cromwell, Ving Rhames, Rosamund Pike, Radha Mitchell and Boris Kodjoe was okay but nothing outstanding. I am glad I waited for DVD. At a time not too distant from our own humans have perfected telekinesis to the point where humans can actually control human like robots "surrogates" from their homes and use these idealized versions of themselves to actually do just about everything that humans do today.

Unfortunately the movie turns into a somewhat prosaic murder mystery/action film when it would have been much more interesting to more deeply examine what kind of world it would be if just about everyone was no longer "real". The picture touches on those issues but only on a surface level. Willis turns in a typically strong performance.


"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungleā€”as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.