Surrogates

I've just come back from watching Surrogates. It's an okay movie, nice premise - what happens, if we can send replacements of ourselves out into the world. The movie keeps it nice, simple and close to the surface; that way obvious plotholes can be ignored more easily, that way you avoid social commentary just as well as tedious explanations and you enable yourself to i.e. always have a proper problem-solving code handy, or a nerd who just happens to know the code to save the world. After deciding to leave out the details the filmmakers had to fill up the time with other stuff, which is of a kind we've seen a thousand times before and understand immediatly: Just let our hero linger in the kid's room a little, have him pick up and set down a baseball bat with a name on it, have him make a face like three days of rainweather and there you are, all the character history you'll ever need is established.
Well, Mr. Mostow, just as T3 wasn't overly dramatic and lacked passion, Surrogates is missing vitality and will probably be remembered a better movie than it actually is, it's just providing some light entertainment, and upon rewatching people, just as it is the case with T3, will be disappointed and say to themselves: Yeah, right, it actually wasn't that good, we should have rented something like I, Robot instead. Or a real classic like T2. Or The fuckin' Last Boy Scout.
At least this time nobody ruined a franchise.