Lacking originality, Surrogates little more than skin deep

Imagine a futuristic world in which humans no longer travel beyond their front door. In this world, people stay at home plugged into a control chair, experiencing life vicariously through personal robot representatives. In the new sci-fi thriller Surrogates this far-fetched idea is brought to life.Based on the eponymous 2005 comic book series, Surrogates at first seems like a strange combination of The Stepford Wives and The Matrix. In a society where all public interactions occur via surrogates, physically-perfect robotic representations of humans, people have come to believe that the surrogate world is superior to their mere humanity. With the use of these surrogates, people experience "life, but better," as crime, injuries and other negative aspects of humanity are rendered virtually nonexistent.