was this movie considered as a flop?

Poorly marketed, or the marketing misrepresented it...

I let it go by when it was in the theaters, and when the home video releases came out (read that as DVD and BluRay).
I understood the marketing I did see as how it was a "cop movie" with Bruce Willis. *Yawn* After "Die Hard" and all its versions were done, I didn't want to sit through still another Willis "cop movie".


That said, I accidentally caught it about mid-way through the other day while flipping channels. It was interesting, but you have to focus on what the movie is about, which oddly enough comes down to a "cop movie" with a lot of twists, more than a movie about robots. (and things like the later AVITAR movie.)

I found it to be a little derivative from another few previous movies, but still original enough to be enjoyable. XCHANGE starring one of the (other) Baldwin brothers used "surrogates" but did an actual mind swap into a biological surrogate/host, and required the mind to be swapped back before the "expiration date" of the surrogate. And then there is the MATRIX series that may hae preceded it too.


So, it was not the movie I expected it to be.
Marketing.