2009 is the year when "based on the original graphic novel" is something that is no longer a mark of quality. The graphic novel was once the lone source of new-found creativity that spurred Hollywood, but the good ones are now almost all taken or unfilmable. This leaves the niche, small ones, and as all comic fans know, they're a bit hit and miss. I haven't read the Surrogates comic, but the film is overall an enjoyable, albeit formulaic, sci-fi B-movie that is watchable once.
The plot is silly, and the writing laughably bad at times, but the combined forces of Jonathan Mostow's spe....