Piles of comparisons have already been made between Avatar and Surrogates, which both feature protagonists who climb into some sort of machine and transfer their consciousness into another body. Avatar uses biological hosts you control from a coffin in a trailer, whereas Surrogates uses androids you control from home.

The DVD & Blu-ray hit two weeks ago (26 Jan), and is destined to be a huge rental success. Bruce Willis and the action genre are catnip to the Blockbuster/Redbox-browsing crowd. Director Jonathan Mostow put together a reasonably serviceable graphic novel adaptation here that's certainly worth a rental. It's worth watching on a lazy afternoon, if only for the most hilarious beard and hair getup in Ving Rhames' career.

The DVD only includes two extras, a director's commentary and a music video. The Blu-ray is the only way to see the deleted scenes and two featurettes (A More Perfect You: The Science of Surrogates, and Breaking the Frame: A Graphic Novel Comes to Life).