Total Recall

Of all the pointless remakes that have ever been unloaded into the world, Total Recall may just be the pointless-est.

The remake of Total Recall never escapes the shadow of its Arnold Schwarzenegger-led predecessor — and, strangely, it feels like a choice. With a script that's nearly beat-for-beat the original film, Total Recall plods along with enhanced special...

Colin Farrell's career took off 10 years ago, when he starred in the very good Philip K. Dick adaptation Minority Report. Now in Total Recall, another Dick adaptation but also a remake of a 1990 film of the same name, Farrell has kind of come full...

Len Wiseman's overhaul of Total Recall never travels to Mars, a wise choice after the mess John Carter left there. That isn't the only switch from Philip K. Dick's short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, or the original 1990 movie that...

Colin Farrell replaces Arnold Schwarzenegger in the new version of “Total Recall,” and the smug sense of campy meanness that made the original 1990 film feel so muscular and grotesque gives way to a vibe that’s slick, shiny and deadly serious.

Don't worry if you can't remember the original "Total Recall." The latest take on the sci-fi short from Philip K. Dick is not as much a remake of the 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger but a re-imagining.

When seeing a remake, I try hard not to think of the original too much. Every movie, whether brand new or a redone version of something else, deserves to be judged on its own merits. Total Recall shows why this is easier said than done, though.

When a Total Recall remake was announced, you could hear questions being raised. Would it be a more faithful adaptation to Philip K. Dick's original story, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale? Would it be a sci-fi blockbuster of action and adventure...

Proof that action movies from the 1980's and early 90's are indeed better than modern action movies, the beloved Arnold Schwarzenegger cheese fest Total Recall gets the reboot treatment with a sleek, sexy but lifeless incarnation from director Len...

Like most remakes, it’s almost impossible to review the new “Total Recall” without at least comparing it a little bit to the 1990 original, directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

That plot sound kinda familiar? Well yeah- of course it does, being that this is a remake of the classic Arnold Schwarzenegger/ Paul Verhoven actioner TOTAL RECALL. Despite the fact that Arnie’s flick holds up pretty damn well...

Director Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 version of Total Recall was a hit for Arnold Schwarzenegger at the height of “Duh Arnold’s” popularity. And, as much as I enjoyed the original, I’m not going to call it a classic. It was fun, with excellent action...

Remember the Arnold Schwarzenegger film “Total Recall?” Remember Mars, three breasted women, little Kuato and Arnie’s hilarious one-liners (“consider that a divorce!”)? Well, if you’re looking for a walk down memory lane (ooh, a “Total Recall” pun)...

Memo to “Total Recall” villains: Less speaking, more slaying, OK? Why punch somebody with a fist that’s holding a gun? When deploying a stick-on grenade, don’t leave so much time on the clock that your victims have time for dinner and a show.

The remake of “Total Recall” is a total reboot, forsaking the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger version and going back to the source material, Philip K. Dick’s 1966 short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” which it forsakes in entirely different ways.

How kind of director Len Wiseman (“Live Free or Die Hard,” “Underworld”) to move the scene featuring a woman with three breasts to an early spot in his remake of “Total Recall,” in case any moviegoers want to leave after seeing the film’s most iconic...

As lackluster and needless a remake as one might've feared, Total Recall follows Colin Farrell's Douglas Quaid as he's forced to go on the run after a trip to a memory-implanting facility reveals that he is, in fact, a spy - with the movie subsequently...

In the opening seconds of the "Total Recall" remake, the words "original film" appear on the screen, referring to a production company calling itself Original Film. So before it even begins, the movie delivers its first inadvertent joke.

There’s an unintentional joke at the very beginning of the new version of Total Recall: one of the production companies is titled “Original Film,” and their marquee rolls past us right after Columbia. Considering the film’s status as a remake – and a pret

It's certainly debatable, but for many of us, Verhoeven's Total Recall is probably the best science-fiction film that Big Arnie ever made. And this Ultimate Rekall edition is probably the best version of the film that you will ever see.

Total Recall might be the most ridiculous sci-fi film since Timecop. It lurches from one scenario to the next with so little interest in logic or common sense that it starts to resemble a gazillion-dollar episode of the ’60s Batman series.

Back when it was originally announced, we were promised that this new version of Total Recall would be a reinterpretation of the Philip K Dick short story on which the 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi action epic was based, rather than a simple remake o

The two biggest differences between this new Total Recall and the 1990 original are that no scenes are set on Mars, and it stars Colin Farrell instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Total Recall Director Wiseman invests this sci-fi action remake with plenty of visual whizzery even as he seems to miss the point of the story. This wouldn't be a problem if the film had a sense of its themes, took itself less seriously or...

The irony of Len Wiseman’s ‘Total Recall’ is - if its audience were suffering from amnesia like its protagonist Douglas Quaid, this would be a perfectly serviceable summer popcorn flick.

Total Recall has a Minority Report hangover. The reason could be that both trace their origin to the works of the same writer, Philip K Dick.

It’s one thing to remake a well-known sci-fi movie, but filmmakers should really hide their inspirations better if they intend to borrow from all of them.

Brainwashed freedom-fighter Doug Quaid, the hero of Philip K. Dick’s 1966 short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (although he’s called Quail there) and the film Paul Verhoeven made from it with Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1990...

Douglas Quaid (played by Colin Farrell) lives with his wife (Kate Beckinsale) in a crowded futuristic city and finds his existence empty and unfulfilling. He decides to go to Rekall, a company that implants exciting memories that are said to be as real...

It's a hard thing for a filmmaker, even an accomplished one, to make a project "his own" when the original is well remembered as a vehicle for a star as big as Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Phillip K. Dick's writing has served as one of cinema's primary premise-generators, ranking right up there with Shakespeare and, thanks to recent trends, superhero comics. Like the Bard (or, sure, Spider-man), Dick's body of work is, first of all...

A needless remake is the physical manifestation of shareholder desire. Nobody's in love with it. Nobody cares about it. Nobody holds it close to their heart. It's a property that is owned, one that can be massaged into spitting out coins like it...

Someone’s messing with Karl Hauser’s mind, making him think he’s Douglas Quaid, an assembly line worker in a late 21st Century robot factory. The pretend Doug is dutiful and dull, dogged by recurring dreams of a more exciting life; Hauser is the real...

You may recall director Len Wiseman from such films as Underworld, Underworld: Evolution and Die Hard 4.0 (or, if you prefer, Live Free Or Die Hard). In addition to producing Underworld: Evolution, he has also produced subsequent franchise entries...

“Looks great, casting is an upgrade--but needed more mind games.”

Warning: Excessive use of lens flares may cause confusion, frustration, facial distortion, distraction from story, and tarnishing of what could have been impressive visual effects.

The movies have been raiding the literary oeuvre of Philip K. Dick since Blade Runner first flickered onto the screen in 1982, bending our minds with themes of questionable memory, corrupt government, alternate reality, and environmental decay.

Perhaps no more absurd than the Verhoeven version, but certainly less amusing. Farrell and Beckinsale emerge unscathed, but the endless scrabbling for novelty and reinvention leaves this feeling unaccountably stale and familiar.

Much of the affection for the rambunctious 1990 original and a big reason for its popularity at the time lies with Arnold Schwarzenegger, then at the peak of his stardom (long before he was reduced to appearing in The Expendables 2).

Ambitious doesn't begin to describe a venture that puts a fretting Farrell in the shoes of the unflappable Schwarzenegger, and that has a "United Federation of Britain" controlling the entire "Eastern Hemisphere (think Chinatown)" as a "colony"...

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