Surrogates

Sci fi always hinges on an improbability and succeeds when the creative forces make the contemporary merge with the future. Surrogates aptly takes the sci fi challenge and passes with flying colors.
As directed by Jonathan Mostow Surrogates offers the conceit that robotics will not only improve our life but allow us to grow old while we continue to project youth and vitality with surrogate robot bodies. Kind of like the picture of Dorian Gray only with software and mechanical props rather than oils and canvas. Bruce Willis is truly in his element - this is a film that calls for movie star looks and action. At home, aged and in some cases decrepit characters lay in padded comfort with headgear devices attached via electrodes to their brains. On the street they look airbrushed beautiful, like, er, movie stars. The small segments of society that refuse to jack in are referred to as "meatbags."
Willis and Radha Mitchell are FBI agents investigating a crime when they stumble on a bigger conspiracy to undermine the worldwide system that keeps the robotics in check. Mitchell and Rosamund Pike interact with Willis and the manner in which they appear goes a long way in defining Surrogates look and feel. Whenever the audience is in the corporeal world everything looks perfect, with Mostow adding clever dutch tilt camera angles to the majority of the shots.
Just to keep things in check, there are plenty of surrogate or avatar themed movies coming out. They all have been in development for years or based on works that are themselves ancient. Surrogates won't replace Blade Runner but it's a hell of a science fiction thrillride.