Total Recall Movie
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Storyline
TAGLINES
They stole his mind, now he wants it back.
Get ready for the ride of your life.
What would you do if someone stole your mind?
Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen. Now the story really begins and it's a rollercoaster ride until the massive end of the movie.
| Sharon Stone | Lori |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | Douglas Quaid/Hauser |
| Michael Ironside | Richter |
| Rachel Ticotin | Melina |
| Ronny Cox | Vilos Cohaagen |
| Marshall Bell | George/Kuato |
| Mel Johnson Jr. | Benny |
| Michael Champion | Helm |
| Roy Brocksmith | Dr. Edgemar |
| Ray Baker | Bob McClane |
| Rosemary Dunsmore | Dr. Lull |
| David Knell | Ernie |
| Alexia Robinson | Tiffany |
| Dean Norris | Tony |
| Mark Carlton | Bartender |
| Paul Verhoeven |
7.30 out of 10 (38907 votes)
Visitor Reviews
The future of yesteryear
posted on 31 Aug 2009What else can be said about this movie except that it all seems so innocent now? And seeing CRTs with obviously curved glass in sci-fi flicks from the 80s and early 90s is always funny anyway. Not to mention the hairstyles and costumes. (This is one thing Kubrick got right -- his computer screens in 2001 - A Space Odyssey are flat...)
Nothing is as dated as the misguided futurism of yesterday. But that does not mean it is a bad movie, only one where some of the "futuristic" elements haven't aged all that well.
But the main thing about the film is of course the Big Question -- what of this, if any of it, is "real", what is imagined? Not that I want to sidestep that question, but has anybody ever considered the fact that this is a fricking _movie_? In other words, the whole thing is a fantasy, and those "dream-implanting machines" are just the fancy sci-fi analogue of a movie theater! The one who is getting false memories implanted is not Arnie's character, but the audience who is watching this (and tries to find out if it real or not), i.e. YOU.
Consider this movie a comment on the act of film-watching itself. That you ask questions about the reality of it all really only shows you are ignoring the obvious thing, the cinema/plasma/TFT screen in front of you.
Maybe that is a daring hypothesis, but then again Starship Troopers and Verhoeven's other films are certainly not to be taken at face value either, so I guess suspecting that the director is trying to make an ironic statement here about his profession is not so far-fetched after all.
And within the reality of the movie, it is made quite clear that, once the technology to fake memories perfectly has been invented, you can _never_ again be sure of what is real and what isn't. And therefore, it does not make sense for Arnie's character to ask himself that. "Your mind will not know the difference", so what would be the point?
And ultimately, we cannot verify our "real" memories either. You may live now and have memories of what you did a week ago, but there is no way for you to go back to make sure you really did what you thought you did a week ago. So from that standpoint we are not in a better position than Arnie's character, except that we generally do not question the validity of our memory very much, even though means exist (hypnosis) to alter it just as effectively as with the (hopefully) fictional machine in this movie.
What is Reality?
posted on 31 Aug 2009Arnold Schwarzenegger is a simple laborer (living like a wealthy guy) until he visits a place that will give him the memories of a vacation to Mars. He pays a little extra so that he can be a spy and save the world. But during the process it turns out that he really is an agent and they have unlocked his memories. Suddenly he is on the run as friends and family turn out to be other than he originally thought. A message from his former self tells him he has to go back to Mars.
Once on Mars he is still on the run. Here he encounters rebels trying to stop the mining concern that controls every aspect of the planet. But while trying to save his own life and that of a previous love, Arnold discovers a Mars secret that could end the tyranny. But in the end Arnold has to wonder is it all real or just part of the artificial vacation package he purchased.
A pretty good film that does manage to deal with Philip K. Dick's ideas regarding the nature of reality. I never understood how the simple laborer had such a glamorous life before the action begins but it doesn't really ruin anything. The action is good and the effects have stood up fairly well although CGI could improve some of the facial effects. All in all this film stands up after time and is still fun to watch.
I am reviewing the special edition with commentary
posted on 31 Aug 2009I bought this cause I haven't seen it in a long time and it said it had a ton of special features.
Well I am here to tell you that the special features are plentiful and they are very good.
The thing that i was dissapointed about was the commentary. It is the director and arnold talking, and they give you some very informative info on how arnold financed this movie, and how minority report was originally total recall two. But arnold ends up ruining the commentary for me. he keeps satimg "watch, watch this, I am a woman here and my head is about to explode, ok here it is". This goes on for most of the commentary and is really annoying. I was at least expecting it to be funny because it was so stupid, but arnold is just plain stupid.
So overall a really good movie, good special features, and an ok commentary.
Great
posted on 31 Aug 2009Well paced, well done science fiction movie. The story uses Arnold just right, and surrounds him with great actors. Based on an excellent story, this movie involves a man who starts to regain memories of being on Mars. Soon he finds that he is so much more than just a construction worker, that his whole life was just a lie. Tons of action and plenty of eye candy, this dvd is a nice print and a good addition to any collection.
Cool on Earth, cool on Mars, he is Ah-Nold!
posted on 31 Aug 2009This is among the coolest Arnold movies I've ever seen. It follows Doug Quaid, played by Ah-nold, a man who is obsessed with Mars. He is being decieved by a villainess named Lori who is pretending to be his wife. Soon, he finds out all sorts of things and is getting into fights involving guns, knives, fists, feet and even explosive weapons. There is a man on Mars, which he soon gets to, named Vilos Cohaggen, who is an evil tyrant and keeps all the air for Mars and its people to live on locked up and bottled. Doug soon finds out all sorts of things, meets his real wife, Melina, a beautiful woman who's also a warrior, then the challenge begins. Will Doug ever find out the truth about who or what he is? Will Vilos be stopped? Will Mars ever be livable again? Find out when you see this wonderful masterpiece. Oh, and I suggest you buy the special edition. Doug & Lori are my two favorite characters. Hero & villain, male & female. Done.
The film about Mars ever...
posted on 31 Aug 2009...which isn't saying much. We've had Red Planet, Mission To Mars and, er, some others. Made when "CGI" wasn't in the modern film maker's lexicon, it contains the best latex-driven, gross-out puppetry that has yet to be bettered. Watching this film really does reinforce the opinion that on-set effects are far more interesting to watch than a moving image on an Amiga. The film's story is more twisty-turny than most late 80's actioners, and by the end you'll still have questions. Which is what SF is all about.
The extras on this special edition are actually quite rubbish. There's a documentary on the making of the film edited by a gibbon. Someone says "I ran to the office with the revised script" and we cut to a shot of Arnie running in the film. Someone says "Paul Verhoven was making faces on set" and we cut to a gurgling Arnie at the end of the film with his eyes popping out of his head. This happens ALL THE TIME. We obviously can't imagine what the interviewees are saying so we have to have brief visual descriptions. Because we're thick.
The Arnie commentary is pretty bad. It starts off pretty well but then degenerates into "This is me pulling a bug out of my head." Presumably descriptions for blind people. He obviously can't remember the film at all which is criminal considering he was paid more than I earn in a year to do it. There's another commentary by two Germans which was panned by critics for being in German. But they're Germans. So they're going to talk German. Do you see?
Excellent film. Wasn't worth the wait for the special edition though.
BRAIN DUMP
posted on 31 Aug 2009Paul Verhoeven's stylish non-stop action TOTAL RECALL is one of Arnold's better movies. Featuring the now classic "consider this a divorce" scene, TOTAL RECALL bristles with electrical tension and brutally explicit action and violence. Based on a short story by Philip Dick, the movie focuses on Arnie, whose memories have been wiped away and when he discovers that, it leads him to Mars and confrontations with nasty guys that want him dead. Considering that this is a 1990 film, the special effects, set design, costuming, etc. are very impressive, as is the late Jerry Goldsmith's atmospheric score.
Arnie is Arnie, who has never made us think of him as a serious actor, but this is his kind of movie, and he is surrounded with some competent supporting performers: Rachel Ticotin as Melina, his love from his previous life, who exudes a smoldering sensuality; the then lesser known Sharon Stone, who plays Arnie's "wife" with a mixture of flirtatious sexuality and out and out viciousness; the irrepressible Michael Ironside, the consummate villain chewing up the scenery; and Ronny Cox as the nasty Coalhagen, who is masterminding all the trouble on Mars to meet his own excessive needs.
This is one of those movies you can enjoy more than once, to savor the lush topography of Mars and Sharon Stone getting her just rewards.
One of my favorite all time movies!
posted on 31 Aug 2009Paul Verhoeven pulls all stops in this non-stop action movie. TOTAL RECALL is a well produced and scripted story that takes you on a trip half way though our galaxy. The main characters memories have been wiped away and the viewer explores the fictional world and adventures of getting his memories back.
This film brings back memories of the late 80's in some of it's set designs and fashions. But all visual and special effects are very impressive and the making of is described in detail in the bonus feature section. The bonus features alone make this DVD a must own!
The soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith is very fitting and beautiful and can be considered one of cinemas greatest scores of all times!
This is one of those movies you can watch many times over- it actually gets better with age! It is fun to travel to the wonderfully strange world of Mars and relive a very breathless and exciting adventure!
Sort of entertaining
posted on 31 Aug 2009I think the movie seemed a little dated and cliche to me. The premise was quite good and interesting but they did'nt focus much on the alien aspect and just made it typically a shoot em up movie. Of course with Arnold in it you can expect a good share of that but this movie seems more suited to teenagers etc. The one major plot flaw is revealed at the end, after poor Arnold suffers a schizoid embolism we find out from his ex boss Mr. Cohagen that he is actually still working for him and his memory erased so they can use him to find the rebel leader on Mars. Now if that is so, which we find out at the end, why were everybody trying to prevent him from getting to Mars in the fist place? I guess maybe to make his new role seem more real, I guess that's a possible explanation. Oh ya, almost forgot, my favorite part was when they got sucked out onto the surface of the planet with no oxygen and for 10 minutes their head was stretching and eye balls popping out and afterwards they were just fine. I was hooting and howling watching that part, it really was so silly that they could have survived it after suffering such physical distortions. I don't think anybody could have come out of that ordeal altogether normal, but for that alone the movie was worth it. Too funny.
Entertainment for all your senses
posted on 31 Aug 2009There are certain films that aim to entertain and try their very hardest to keep the audience entertained, if not on the edge of their seat, but rarely are they also capable of making the audience think. This movie is fun from start to finish, but it also manages to keep you thinking about reality and the implications of the ideas presented in the movie.
Total Recall is certainly one of the better films to come from director Paul Verhoeven whose career I must say has its ups and down. He's has RoboCop, which I also thought was a fun action/satire, but then films such as Starship Troopers had me far less impressed. He is certainly better when adapting short stories in a satirical fashion than he is adapting professionally written stories and trying to satirize them like he did with Starship Troopers- Verhoeven's resulting film seeming more like an insult to its source material instead of an adaptation.
Total Recall movie is based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, who also wrote the stories behind Blade Runner, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. Unlike Blade Runner and Minority Report this is one of the more satirical approaches on sci-fi and it does have some good laughs among its fun sets and action, but like those two films it provides some of the best science-fiction imagery to date.
Of course, being released in 1990, what better male lead in an action film than Arnold Schwarzenegger? Now, the future California Governor has never been the best actor, but he manages to find one of his stand-out roles in Douglass Quaid, a man who is under constant danger and isn't even capable of knowing whether the dangers he faces are real or not!
Tired with his life as a construction worker Douglass Quaid is set on having a vacation to Mars. Only problem is he's a tad bit low on cash and his wife isn't very keen on taking a trip to the Martian surface- which is currently under a state of civil unrest and urban warfare between the mutants and the evil business leader, Vilos Cohaagon, who quite literally has an airtight grip over the citizens of Mars. Since going to Mars is out of the question Quaid goes for the next best thing: fake memories.
After a visit to Rekall he has it arranged for him to be given a vacation to Mars from the perspective of a secret agent on a crucial mission. This dream comes a bit too true as he is thrust into a fight for his life, never knowing whether or not what he is seeing is real or not. The audience can't tell for that matter for there is enough evidence to support either option.
Total Recall is good escapist entertainment and is often quite funny in a black sort of way. Arnold Schwarzenegger is charismatic in the lead and manages to deliver several good one-liners (other than the cheesy "Screw you!"). The art direction, special effects, costumes, make-up, and sets are all quite convincing and fun to look at and overall it is a film that always keeps your attention in some form or another. I give a strong recommendation to Total Recall, but the film does seem to stay in check and never take to initiative to go above and beyond like Blade Runner and Minority Report have.
One of my favorite Arnold movies
posted on 31 Aug 2009Quality of the DVD is very good, price is excellent, so I'm happy! No matter what anyone says about the quality of the special effects (this isn't a new movie, after all), the movie is a lot of fun and completely entertaining, particularly if you love science fiction like I do.
Easy to Like Even if You Don't Like Its Star
posted on 31 Aug 2009"Total Recall," (1990), a sci-fi action thriller set sometime in the future, stars Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's based on "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," a short story by the noted sci fi author Philip K. Dick, was penned for the screen by Ronald Shusett, and was directed by Paul Verhoeven. It boasts a high-quality score by Jerry Goldsmith. And it's as easy to like as its affable, hugely muscular star, who, we know, has gone far in real life, too.
The film's set in Mexico City future, and on the famously red planet, Mars, where they've found something worth mining, leading to its colonization from Earth. Unfortunately, however, the planet has no atmosphere, thus no oxygen: all settlers and tourists must stay within an immense dome, and pay the local administration for air. Schwarzenegger plays Douglas Quaid, supposedly an ordinary earthly construction worker, though married to the beauteous young Lori (Sharon Stone). But Quaid is actually a recently brainwashed incarnation of Hauser, who was a big man on Mars as an administration spy. Quaid dreams of the red planet, and is so strongly drawn back there that he goes to a firm called Rekall, that implants pleasant memories, of whatever virtual vacation a client might select, in the subject's brain. But Quaid pays extra to virtually vacation as a spy, in cahoots with Melina, the sleazy-demure girl(Rachel Ticotin) he's chosen from the book. Problems arise, and Quaid must beat it back to Mars.
Verhoeven is a good action director -- he also gave us "Robocop--" and he's got a down and dirty Dutch touch. Sets are good: neither Mars, nor the city of the future, has too much of a cardboard look. And, in fact, just when things look most spacey, we're wittily, abruptly brought down to earth by something that still looks a lot like present-day Mexico City, to those who know it, or a can of Pepsi, a neon "lite" beer sign, or a sidewalk newspaper vending machine selling "Mars Today," in the familiar red logo of "USA Today." The citizens of Mars' Venusville, and its physical appearance, are spicy hot hot hot. The dialogue is witty -- Schwarzenegger gets off a couple of his famous one-liners, including "Consider this a divorce." The plot's good, and quick, satisfyingly complex, and has quite a few witty moments, too.
Schwarzenegger receives strong backing from an athletic young Stone as his wife,and Latina Ticotin as the sleazy-demure other woman: they're quite likely the best parts either woman ever had. The supporting players are solid. That European hand of director Verhoeven is frequently evident. There's a lot more blood, sweat, and spit than we're used to seeing in movies, and a closer look is taken, for example, at some dying goldfish, than we're accustomed to. (Quite possibly, closer than we would prefer.)
Verhoeven, unhappily, lets his special effects get the best of him in the film's last few minutes: they have a "Grand Guignol" quality not to everyone's taste. But it's an entertaining, interesting movie up until then.