Surrogates

** - One more in a long string of movies that pound into our heads that machines are evil and humans are great. While I don’t necessarily disagree with the “over-reliance on technology is bad” message that is espoused in this film, I would have to say that it is pretty unsuccessful in making that point appealing, as all the characters – human and robot alike – are equally despicable. When you think about it, though, the idea of ‘surrogates’ as a potential future technology is pretty dumb, as anything these human controlled robots do could easily (and much more affordably) be simulated in a computer with the same results.