Total Recall (DVD)

TOTAL RECALL There is a fairly unique equation that, rather sadly, is not used often enough in the movie business. When it is, however, it provides for some rather fabtastic cream-in-your-jeans results. It goes a little something like this: Arnold Schwarzenegger times Paul Verhoeven divided by Philip K. Dick = three breasted mutant alien women, a midget prostitute with a knife fetish, exit wounds the size of one of Jupiter's moons, Arnie beating the living crap out of anything that moves, Martian time-slips, shitloads of gore, eye-stalks popping out of eye sockets and, rather incredibly, some deftly handled sci-fi ambiguity. It's a cocktail cornucopia of ...  Read the complete review

If you have already read my review on 'The Running Man' you should be aware that I am currently giving my partner an education on the master of cinema that is Arnold Schwarzenegger. After witnessing lesson 1.01 The Running Man, my girlfriend fell into what can only be said to be a coma. This consisted of her unwillingness to talk to me for a week and 4 hours. To many men this may have perturbed them and forced them off their plan, I however am made of far sterner stuff. Therefore lesson 1.02 Total Recall was a go when I noticed it playing late one night. Once more aided with a tube of superglue I stuck my GF to the couch and pointed her noggin at the blinky box. ...  Read the complete review

Plot Summary: Total recall is a sci-fi/adventure film staring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid. Doug keeps having dreams about exploring mars with a woman. He wants to move to Mars, but his wife Lorrie discourages him. After seeing an advertisement for a company called "Recall", selling false vacation memories, Quaid decides to pay them a visit, despite the warning from his construction worker friend Harry earlier that day. He decides to buy a vacation on mars in which he plays a secret agent. But just before the implant of the memory, he has a violent outburst, yelling "You blew my ...  Read the complete review

It took me the best part of fifteen years to understand what the hell was happening in John Verhoeven's futuristic, mind-tampering action flick Total Recall. Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, the film presents the concept of artificial memory implants that [apparently] will wipe out any previous identity. A person then has the option of living his/her life with a chosen fantasy, as if it were a reality. Of course, the execution of this idea doesn't run as smoothly as the company in the film- "Rekall Inc." -would want. Douglas Quaid (Schwarzenegger) is an everyman: a construction worker, with the trademark blonde wifey (Sharon Stone). ...  Read the complete review

Director: Paul Verhoeven Producer: Mario Kassar Writers: Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, Jon Povill and Gary Goldman. Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Rachel Ticotin and Ronny Cox. Released in the summer of 1990 this near two hour movie takes you into some futuristic and rather frightening scenarios involving the big red planet... * BRIEF PLOT * It is the year 2084 and Douglas Quaid, (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger), is a construction worker who is happily married to Lori, (Played by Sharon Stone)... unfortunately for him his life begins to take a turn for the worse when he starts to have ...  Read the complete review