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Release Date: 29 August, 2000 Retail Price: $19.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (12 total) |
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A very groovy sci-fi action movie.
This movie is so cool,and i reccomend it to everyone over 18.it rocks! this is arnold swazzerneggers best film after terminator and t2.he plays doug quide,a consruction worker you keeps having dreams about mars[which has been colinised]were he's with a unknown woman and he ends up dying. he goes to a place[rekall]were you can get fake memorys implanted.he gets one to mars as a secret agent.but things go wrong and the fake memorys awaken real memorys. he then finds out[after his fake wife lowri tries to kill him]that he is a secret agent called hauser who's had his memory stolen a replaced with dougs. doug goes to mars to stop cahoogan[the guy who stole hausers mind]from rationing air. i won't give away the rest,but there is a double twist.
this is the perfect film.its written by ronald"alien"shusset and directed by paul "robocop"verhoeven,because they are both two of by faourite directors an writers. the star studded cast is excellent.arnie does some descend acting,and icouldn't imagine anyone else as quide,and rachell ticoton was tough and good,an essentiol character.also,marshell bell as george/kuato had a small but important part as a creepy phycic alien. on the badguys side,ronny cox is amazingly evil and brilliant as cahoogan,and sharon stone in one of her earlier performances pops up as lori,dougs fake wife,who gets a bullet right between the eyes.my favourite character though is richter,played brilliantly by michael ironside,who finds himself armless by the end of the movie.
the fx by rob bottin are amazing,which is why he won an oscar.
this movie has something for everyone:sci-fi,action,romance,cheesey one liners and buckets of blood and gore.people are fussy about it not being realistic when films are meant to be fun,not realistic.another good thing is the fantastic plot[taken from a philip.k.dick novel],which revolves around the dillema:is doug dreaming it all at rekall.if you listen in the bit at rekall,who'll hear ernie say "blue sky on mars thats a new one"which is the colour of the sky at the end which keeps ya thinking after the films finished.
there is allot of gore particcully at the end when cahoogan dies which makes the film cool but what gave the film it's 18 rating.
if you havnt seen this film see it,and you'll watch it again and again.
11/10
P.A.B 10
Despite Flaws, Recall Is Total As A Fun Sci-Fi Story
Paul Verhoeven has become among Hollywood's better known directors. His most recent work, Starship Troopers, did well at the box office thanks to its outstanding special effects, interesting premise, and surprisingly good cast.
Verhoeven first earned widespread movie fame with Robocop, but it was 1990's Total Recall that stands as his best work.
Arnold Schwarzenegger gives a genuinely great performance as Douglas Quaid, a construction worker in the late 21st Century who, out of an unconquerable fascination with Mars - now a colony run by vicious corporate dictator Vilhos Cohaagen - goes to Rekall, Inc., a company that implants "memories" of experiences in those willing to pay. But when Rekall implants a memory of a trip to Mars, it "pops a memory cap" in Quaid, who turns out not to be who he thinks he is. When his wife Lori (the overrated Sharon Stone in the only performance of hers that is truly worth watching) tries to kill him, Quaid forces! her to tell him that a supersecret Agency under the direction of Cohaagen erased his memory and implanted a new one.
Quaid dodges the guns of the murderous Richter (a delightfully insane performance by Michael Ironside) and gets help from a former buddy of his on Mars. He then travels to the Red Planet and gets mixed up in a bloody civil war between Cohaagen's goons and rebel followers of a being called Kuato. But seemingly nothing is as it appears to Quaid, until he learns from Kuato just what the secret is that Cohaagen wants.
It is fairly easy to point out what is wrong with this film - it is excessively violent and gory, and includes some action scenes - like a bloody bar brawl - that are unnecesary. The pivotal scene - when Quaid is strapped in an implant chair to have his memory erased again, but he rips free and slaughters the scientists performing the procedure - is effective, but ruined because it allows Quaid to pull off an absurd flexing of muscle - he rips ! a heavy arm restraint out, anchor and all, and rips it thro! ugh the throat of one Cohaagen scientist thug. There is also the usual absurdity of action films - the wholesale slaughter of enemy soldiers without so much as a scratch on the one or two good guys. There is also a PREPOSTEROUS speech by Cohaagen during the final act that is a glaring example of the cliche of the villian who has the hero cornered, but spends so much time talking it gives the hero an opportunity.
Nonetheless, it is a superior script, with many twists and a fascinating climax. END
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