What if you take virtual reality a step or two further? What if you could have a life-size, lifelike representation of yourself --a 'surrogate'-- walking and talking irl?
It would be the ultimate dream of perverts, and for everybody else it would mean saying goodbye to wrinkles and creases. Crime and disease rates would plunge to record lows, but so would quality of life, or so The Prophet (Ving Rhames) would have you believe. "A lie" is what he calls the lives of people whom are living their lives through surrogates. He and other like-minded souls, who like to keep it real and old-school, have gathered in small pockets of surrogate-free zones. Outside these pockets, surrogates walk and talk like the living dead in The Polar Express (2004).
Until operators --the peeps operating the surrogates-- start ending up dead along with their surrogates. Detective Tom Greer (Bruce Willis) is assigned to investigate and, whilst on the job, Greer (Willis) finds an excuse to go gritty and roam the streets in the flesh.
A reflection of life in the information age disguised as a who-dunnit murder mystery.
(Running time: 88 minutes)
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