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Summary: Twists galore!
Review: I would give this movie 5 stars if it weren't for those awful socks Sharon Stone wears in her aerobic scene! If they come back this reviewer wishes he could live on Mars! On a more serious note, this is a movie that I loved on VHS, and cannot wait to upgrade to DVD. A very good plot, a number is twists, good acting from cast and very good FX for the year. Stand out performance of this movie for me, Mr Ironside, as cop, Richter. I have enjoyed a number is Ironside's performances in the past, and hope to in the future. Arnold plays a good part, and although he will never play a role in Romeo and Juliet, he plays these roles very well, and in my opinion, there is no problem with any actor that plays one role better than others. Christopher Lee anybody? All in all, a very good story line, and one of the first movies in my memory to have an intelligent twist. This is a tool that directors and using more and more (Fight Club, Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense), which I would much prefer, as guessing the ending of a movie 30 minutes in is getting old really quick. There are plenty of explosions, twists and Arnold running around looking confused about the plot to keep anyone happy. I hear news of a sequel, which I am not sure about, as it can only cheapen this movie, and remove much of the mystery of this fine work.
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Summary: sound disappointing
Review: I agree with the audio description wholeheartedly- I expected great surround with this dvd...didn't get it....it had great potential...t2 sounds much better and believe it or not the thing had certain gun shot scenes that bounced around to each speakerbetter than this dvd..as far as video clarity it was decent nothing spectacular...overall- a poor job considering the potential this movie had for spectacular sound and sights! you can't go wrong with getting the vhs or waiting for a dts version.
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Summary: Excellent Replay Value
Review: Total Recall is like a great James Bond movie set in future. Great storyline with just enough of a twist to make you watch it over and over again. This film features: fantastic special effects, futuristic settings on both Earth and Mars, plenty of good action sequences, classic rivalries between Schwarznegger and Ironside/blonde bombshell Sharon Stone and dark haired beauty Rachael Ticotin, alien artifacts, freakish mutations, cheesy one liners, memory erasures and futuristic gadgets galore. What more can you ask for?
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Summary: Totally Foolish
Review: A huge dissapointment in the large part, and a total disgrace to the Science Fiction community. The film is plauged with mindless violence a very, very loose plot, pointless encounters with the bad-guys and horrible acting, not to say that Arnold Schwarzenegger is bad, just this film. If you like good action Science Fiction films, please for your own sake try one of the Terminator films first.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Arnie usually puts out good action flicks, but something went wrong here! The story is decent.......but the action blows! And when has Arnold ever needed a good plot? Get T2.
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Summary: A very groovy sci-fi action movie.
Review: 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
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Summary: Arnold's greatest movie!
Review: If you are a fan of Sci-Fi action movie like me, don't search anymore, Total Recall delivers all. Well don't let your kids watch that cause it's a very violent motion picture but if you liked the blood, you'll be amazed. As usual, Arnold is the hero who save Mars and kill all the bad guys but the story is still captivating.
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Summary: Average Arnold SF
Review: A DVD I have in my collection mainly because I'm a big Sci-Fi fan. No one scene really stands out in my mind, none of the scenes were great, but none were terrible either. They work well taken as a whole. None of the preformances were outstanding and pretty standard Arnold action as well. An interesting plot to a degree that makes you wonder what is supposed to be real and what is imaginary.
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Summary: One of the Best Sci Fi films of all Time
Review: I realy like this film, even 10 years after it's release. Total recal simply does everything right. It has great music, good special effects, and a great story. Schwarzenegger does a good job and the rest of the cast is made up of character actors(Paul Verhoeven for example) who do their parts well. The real meat of this film is it's story. What starts out as a simple virtual vacation turns into a struggle for the indepence of Mars. Without giving too much away, the film keeps you guessing whether anything is real and you never know who to trust. Total Recall is a great film and a Sci Fi fan's dream.
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Summary: Matrix is pure excrement compared to this.
Review: Partially because I hate Matrix, of course. Now, imagine that you were a member of a secret part of government on Mars sometime after 2100. Imagine that you knew too much and your memory was erased and you were put away into a perfectly boring life with a tracking device up your nose. Imagine that someone else wants it all to come back to normal. Now imagine that Arnold is in the key role. Doesn't that sound fun? This film has a science fiction base (if I'm not mistaken it actually takes origin from a short story), it has sci-fi effects that most of us actually find enthralling rather than revolting (such as those in Matrix, the special effects in which turned away quite a lot of people), and it has a human factor. Watch it. It's a blast.
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