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The idea of being able to have a robot version of yourself go into the world and experience anything you want without any fears or worries and not being able to die is very alluring. In this movie all of that becomes a reality in the world of the future. You control the robot version of yourself with your mind from the comfort and safety of your home.

Like with most things in the world there will always be people that are against something and will form protest groups around the world. Here we see the same thing happen where there are groups of people that oppose the idea of surrogates.

Tom Greer, (Bruce Willis), starts investigating the first murder in years where both surrogate and their operator were killed using an OD (Overload Device). He feels the need to connect with his wife Maggie, (Rosamund Pike), in real life and not through her surrogate. Their lives changed when their son was killed in a car accident and now Maggie feels she can only interact via her surrogate and not the person she really is.

More than that I won’t give away. If you are into sci-fi and futuristic movies then this is for you.

PEVibe Score: 7/10

It was a typical hijacking, hostage holding movie that did not really impress. It was almost too predictable for me and the acting of John Travolta and Denzel Washington mediocre because of the characters they played. Too much swearing on Travolta’s part put me off as well.

Ryder (Travolta), hijacks a subway train and holds the passengers hostage on the train and demands $10 million to be delivered in 1 hour and he will start killing 1 passenger for every minute they are late. Garber (Washington), the subway dispatcher has to act as the hostage negotiator/confidant that Ryder talks too and won’t talk to anyone else.

Not worth the effort to watch this one at all. If you don’t see anything else on the shelf then fair enough.

PEVibe Score: 4/10

Not sure what everybody was raving about this movie for because it failed to impress me. It is almost as if they brought back apartheid in this film and the victims were the aliens. They are housed in shacks in Johannesburg and then must be relocated 200 kilometers away. If I had watched this in the Cinema I probably would have walked out. There is a lot of skop, skiet and donner here and people getting blown to bits, but still it ceased to amuse me.

The aliens are referred to as “Prawns” which also I feel was very tacky and should just have been dubbed straight forward “Aliens” instead.

“Wikus Van der Merwe” (Sharlto Copley), plays the leading role in the film where he works for the government and gets assigned the task of relocating the aliens. He then discovers a strange container in one of the shacks and is infected with an Alien liquid of some sort. Shortly after his arm mutates into an Alien one. The MNU takes him in and uses him to fire off the Alien weapons as the humans cannot use them, then manages to escape.

He finds the “Prawn” that may be able to help him change back to human. The “Prawn” promises that he will be able to help him in 3 years only… what the hell?

So if you must see it then fair enough, but not recommended. Some might even say that they were bored with it and you will probably sit there forwarding through bits of the movie just to get it over with.

PEVibe Score: 3/10

I usually enjoy Jack Black’s movies, but unfortunately for this one… it lacked in so many ways. Caveman Zed is banished from his tribe and discovers a whole new world where him and Caveman Oh thought the world ends and that they would literally fall off.

They start meeting Biblical figures such as Cain and Abel and Abraham, but the mockery of these figures appalled me. It was just not funny at all. If you were by any chance wanting to get this out, don’t bother. A huge step backwards for Jack Black I would say.

PEVibe Score: 3/10