Well, it's not good, but it's a reason.

I can't give you a good reason why I went to see Surrogates. Bruce Willis maybe, I, Robot-esque maybe, I don't know. All are reasons, they just aren't good....

This had the potential to be a pretty neat movie. Had it been written correctly, it might have been interesting instead of convoluted.

Bruce Willis plays a FBI agent in a world that doesn't seem to need agents. He and his partner are sent out to investigate a murder... the first murder in close to ten years. The reason there haven't been any murders is because close to 98% of the world's population is living life through a life-like robot that is controlled remotely by their minds. The "surrogates" allow humans to do and act however they please with no consequences. If your surri gets shot, you repair it. Hit by a car, replace it. You spend your day in bed and send your surri out into the world to live your life. There is no sickness or disease because robots don't get sick, and you are hermetically sealed in your apartment/house where nothing can touch you.

I know what you are thinking... all you germophobes and hand sanitizer junkies out there. Gee, that sounds like a really great plan! No more flu.... no more people in the office hacking on me, "forgetting" to wash their hands after they potty... etc etc. But one interesting point that is raised in the movie is... how do you know who anyone really is? See, your "surri" doesn't have to look like you; in fact, Willis' partner is actually stunned to find out that he looks a lot like his surrogate. How do you know that your new best girlfriend to whom you are confiding all your secrets, isn't a teenage boy? Or that the man that you met in the bar is a butch gal looking for a good time? You think it's bad that you don't know who you are talking to on the internet? Imagine if you couldn't even trust your eyes.

There is also a small population that is fighting back. These people live on reservations and are called dregs. These people are violent, angry and hide behind religion (like a lot of so-called "religious" zealots). The dregs have been given a weapon that kills the surrogates AND the user.

So you see, no one is really right in this movie and it boils down to just a combination of Die Hard, The Matrix, I,Robot and Demolition Man all rolled into one movie. Sit down and watch all these movies in any particular order and you will know about as much as I do after watching just this one movie... and probably have more fun!