It isn't the same idea; it has more in common with Avatar than the Matrix, although Avatar sells the virtual experience as real and humanizing (of aliens) whereas Surrogates is about the experience being dehumanizing - RAPatton

Are you trying to say Hollywood is out of ideas? Reboot, reboot, reboot! - Rick Schmidt

People know they are using the Surrogates, and ultimately it is a story about how it is dehumanizing to use these representations of ourselves. I enjoyed the graphic novel, and think that the film can do pretty well - RAPatton

Ah, I got it now Robert, thanks. The trailer made it seem remarkably like the Matrix: group of resistance fighters trying to take on a larger entity that's bent on keeping people locked up in a virtual world for a nefarious purpose, only a select few know what the real world is really like, and a misplaced guy who's blown away by all the new stuff he's learned. - Mark Trapp

Without giving too much away, it is a world where you can interface with a robot surrogate version of yourself that allows you to sense as you would as a person. A police officer investigatiing a crime has his surrogate broken and is forced out to explore the real world for the first time in years and realizes that along the way we are losing something. - RAPatton

LOL - Melissa

I have to say the subway ads for "Surrogates" are very powerful. Bold, with beautiful bodies that are part slinky. (am probably dating myself by mentioning that toy. :-) ) - Karma Martell