Total Recall (1990)

United States of America, Mexico

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Hollywood Movies Hindi Dubbed, Hindi Dub Movies, Dual Audio, Hollywood Movies, English Movies

Carolco Pictures, Ronald Shusett/Gary Goldman Productions, TriStar Pictures

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell

Paul Verhoeven

Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Gary Goldman

Taglines: They stole his mind, now he wants it back.

double life, planet mars, based on novel or book, oxygen, resistance, telepathy, falsely accused, dystopia, villainess, mutant, hologram, space travel, space colony, utopia, fake identity, secret agent, futuristic, cyberpunk, fictional war, false memory, robot cop, implanted memory, action hero, virtual world, 2080s

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company who manufacture memories. Something goes wrong during his memory implant turning Doug's life upside down and even to question what is reality and what isn't.

Reviews:

Author: Geronimo1967
Aside from maybe "Predator" (1987) this is probably my favourite outing from Arnold Schwarzenegger. He ("Quaid") goes off to have an harmless implant of memories from an holiday on Mars (that he hasn't had) only to find that his life starts to unwind very quickly afterwards. Even his girlfriend "Lori" (Sharon Stone) becomes a would-be assassin and he is soon under attack from just about every other quarter too. Why? Well, that's what we now explore as he decides that he - helped by a video iteration of himself - must travel back to the red planet and get to the bottom of things. My flaw - well Ronny Cox is just dreadful as "Cohaagen" which does prove important towards the end of the film, but for the main part it is an action packed and well directed vehicle for a very much on-form star. It's one of the first films I recall that started messing about with timelines. We are not quite sure what happened when or if, indeed, at all - and Paul Verhoeven keeps that tempo running well right from the start of the film. Arnie has a chance to deliver some quite fun one-liners and the visual effects enhance, sparingly, the production rather than impose themselves on it. It has dated a little, some of the sets do look a bit static, but thirty-odd years on, it's still standing up well and is well worth seeing.