It's too bad, since I wanted to like this movie. I really, really did want to like this movie. I went into the theater excited, hoping to see a movie with some decent plot that MIGHT just touch on some issues in humanity.
This is not what I saw.
I was sorely disappointed by the over-done action scenes that took away from the basic 'plot,' of the story, if you could say it had one to begin with. The story was very hard to follow on many parts, and on other, it was only for the gullible. The random, spontaneous and sometimes stupid plot twists had be sick to my stomach within the first half hour, and especially by it's conclusion.
And though I was willing to accept many of the idiotic twists and turns this movie took concerning the protagonist's family life, or the side characters relevance to the plot, it was the ending that really got to me. The entire investigation that the movie was about was started because people were dying while connected. Because the 'virus program' that the gun 'shot' at the surrogates somehow overrode the fail safes and 'liquified their brains.' But when the program went worldwide and the protagonist made the very confusing and monumentally anti climatic decision NOT to stop the virus that was being broadcast to every surrogate in the world, that little fact was forgotten. Everyone exited their houses, happy and alive, astounded by the world around them and strangely ready to give up their lovely surrogates.
The story was unfounded in logic, the plot was confusing, and the characters were flat, boring, and nothing more than cookie-cutter. In all regards, watching this film may have been one of the biggest wastes of my life I've ever experienced.