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It is a performances centric movie

Admirable film.

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Total Recall (Remake) Review 2/5How did they manage to mess up a remake of Total Recall? They have all the state of the art special effects and everything else yet they managed to make a boring pile of generic rubbish. It's full of watered down wonky edited fight scenes, dull characters and a half baked plot. The first film was very entertaining with exciting action scenes, twists and an interesting setting. The only draw back is it looked dated even back then. With the remake they had the chance to make it look incredible.They changed it drastically. Not to say change is bad but they changed it for the worse. The film was set on Earth instead of Mars and the henchmen were replaced with robotic androids. All in all its just a boring chase thriller with no excitement and zero character development. The music score by Marco Beltrami is not even memorable (It doesn't come close to Jerry Goldsmiths score) It references a lot the stuff from the original film but it just comes across as a desperate attempt to draw the fans in. Colin Farrell just looks bored throughout, Bryan Cranston is bland as the villain and Kate Beckinsale is just annoying as his ex-wife. The original film was an ultraviolet gore fest but this is just a 12A watered down bore fest. Although the cinematography looks good it just looks like a rip off of superior films like Blade Runner and Minority Report.

In a post-apocalyptic world where civilization is divided in two and linked by a huge elevator which crosses the Earth's center, an ordinary factory worker, living an ordinary life, begins to doubt his own identity after visiting a company which promises to inject memories into one's brain. He soon discovers that he has an impressive history as a spy and some amazing combat skills which he'll have to use in order to help whichever side he decides to join.It's an impressive remake of "Total Recall" from 1990 which featured Arnold Schwarzenegger as main character. I'm delighted to see a classic movie (at least for me) remade using today's technology and actors especially when the results are as good as this film. The actors were surprisingly enjoyable, especially the female antagonist who seems to put quite an effort in her acting and it shows. The whole mind bending plot is on par with the above mentioned, making your confused mind wonder over and over again about which is the truth. My expectations were beaten so I have to admit once again that I was wrong for judging a book by its cover, this movie proving to be one hell of a ride!

I've watched the two films in a row, first the Schwarzenegger movie, then the update. Even so the special effects, how the cities are set and an improved story, the initial film has an extra because the humor.A few differences and references of both films. This second film happens entirely in this planet. The first one was between Earth and Mars. Just a Mars reference happens when Douglas is going to be implanted the holiday memory and he states that he would love to visit the planet. The road with levitating vehicles is excellent, a real vehicle where the pilot is a ridiculous dummy.Mars is full of mutants, and this includes a prostitute with three breast. The Colony, in the recent film, has a interesting night life also, and the scene repeats when a girl shows her three breast to Douglas.I suppose there are a few more hidden references, but it's kind of a game to find them, let's try for yourself.Enjoy.

"Total Recall" is a remake of the old Schwarzenegger classic and deals with a normal worker that through a series of events learns that his memories have been faked by the government to prevent him from returning to his old life as an agent for the resistance movement.Although there is some serious thought put into the underlying story of the film, this remake is only slightly more than your average action movie because most of it mainly consists of long chases or gunfights. This way the plot stays unpleasantly superficial, even though I have to admit that the production is of high value and meets all the standards for a decent Hollywood Action Movie. I am rather critical if this new version would have been necessary. Yes, the new technical possibilities surely suit the story well but they also tend to force the actual concept behind it a bit into the background.All in all this is a better action film, spiced with some sci-fi- elements that guarantee a stringent story-line. Everyone should decide on his or her own if this remake was necessary, personally I could have well lived without it.