Both films open with him happy and cluelessly married to Sharon Stone in the first, Kate Beckinsale in this one. In both, he is discontented with his life. In both, he discovers that everything he thinks he knows about himself is fictitious, and all of his memories have been implanted.
The enormity of this discovery is better reflected by Schwarzenegger, who seems more wounded, more baffled, more betrayed — and therefore more desperate. In the Farrell performance, there's more of a sense that the character is being swept along with the events.
The ingenuity of the plot, inspired by a Philip K. Dick story, is handled well in this version, directed by Len Wiseman , and in Paul Verhoeven's version.
In both, there are passages in which Quaid has no idea what to believe and must decide which of various characters can be trusted.
Both films are top-heavy with non-stop action, but there's more humanity in the earlier one, and I think we care more about the hero. A film that really took this premise seriously would probably play more like Christopher Nolan's " Memento ," following a man adrift in his own timeline. But enough about In the new film, Earth is uninhabitable because of chemical warfare, except for two areas: a federation centered on the British isles and a colony on the former Australia.
Workers from the colony provide factory labor for the federation, which sidesteps the commute time by linking them in what looks to be a tunnel straight through the Earth. That's a lot of effort to go to in order to get cheap labor; Quaid's factory job involves tightening two screws on the breastplates of robot soldiers being manufactured by the federation. These robots have a neat design, are sleek and shiny black and white, but are apparently doofuses.
I can't remember a single robot doing much more than marching in step and getting itself destroyed. The film does a detailed job of creating its cities, which in the federation is a towering futuristic marvel, and the colony seems to be countless small hovels endlessly stacked on top of one another, like the dwellings you can see clinging to the sides of other buildings in Hong Kong. Video Photos Top cast Edit. Bokeem Woodbine Harry as Harry. Bryan Cranston Cohaagen as Cohaagen.
Jessica Biel Melina as Melina. Bill Nighy Matthias as Matthias. Will Yun Lee Marek as Marek. Stephen MacDonald Slacker as Slacker. Len Wiseman. Kurt Wimmer screenplay by screen story by Mark Bomback screenplay by Ronald Shusett screen story by based on the motion picture "Total Recall", screenplay by based on the motion picture "Total Recall", screen story by.
More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. A remake of the film Total Recall , author Philip K. The planet has been decimated by chemical war in the late 21st century, leaving only two nations -- the United Federation of Britain and the Colony. Douglas Quaid Farrell is a factory worker with a stable job and a loving wife Beckinsale , but upon learning that a company named Rekall could grant him the memory of the ultimate espionage adventure, he decides to take a virtual vacation.
But in the midst of having the new memories implanted, something goes haywire. He's branded a spy, the authorities close in, and he quickly flees for his life.
Later, Quaid discovers that his life and memories were implanted. He joins forces with rebel soldier Melina Jessica Biel on a mission to track down Matthias Bill Nighy , the head of a resistance movement that's been labeled a terrorist organization by the tyrannical Chancellor Cohaagen Bryan Cranston. Cohaagen seeks to control the entire free world.
The harder Quaid fights to defeat him, the clearer it becomes that his memory had been altered long before he walked into Rekall. What is real? Action Adventure Sci-Fi Thriller. Rated PG for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, some sexual content, brief nudity, and language.
Did you know Edit. Trivia Actor Colin Farrell actually spent a night on the set because he wanted "to see what it would be like to wake up in the future".
Goofs For The Fall to travel the diameter of the Earth in 17 minutes, it would have to maintain an average speed of over kph mph. At this speed, it would be impossible for anyone to survive standing on the outside, because of both the airflow and the high temperatures resulting from friction.
Quotes Matthias : Mr. Matthias : Why? Alternate versions The scene where the three-breasted woman is topless has been re-shot for the US release due to different moral standards.
The version released in European countries is unchanged. User reviews Review. Top review. A Nutshell Review: Total Recall. Dick story entitled We Can Remember it for You Wholesale and as such it has some fairly mind-bending aspects to it.
The film takes significant liberties with the story of course, it is a film adaptation after all, but what the movie ends up doing is asking a question the original story never does. Can we trust the events we're seeing on screen? Are the events of the film the "real" story or are they just the fake memory that the main character paid for?
Let's see if we can answer:. Before we can get into the specifics of what the film gives us regarding the reality of the situation, we need to start with a basic rundown of the film's story. Arnold Schwartzenegger plays Douglas Quaid. The year is and Quaid is a fairly ordinary guy, with, one assumes, an ordinary job, breaking rocks with a jackhammer.
It's really not clear what he does beyond that. The guy does have one thing going for him, which is that his wife looks like Sharon Stone. Doug's wife suggests they go on vacation and Doug is really obsessed with visiting Mars. His wife, for some reason, is really not interested in Mars. This causes tension between the two, and Quaid eventually decides that if he can't go to Mars, he'll have a memory of going there implanted in his brain.
A company called Rekall sells fake memories as a way for people to take vacations without having to spend as much money or worry about things going wrong. However, in addition to simply getting a standard memory, he also decides to add an option which would make him a secret agent during his memory. It's at this point that things get weird. In the middle of the implantation procedure, Quaid starts to go nuts. You see, apparently, Douglas Quaid is actually a secret agent, and in trying to implant this vacation memory, the Rekall techs inadvertently uncovered the fact that the life he's living now is actually false.
Quaid has his memory wiped, but upon returning home, both Doug's best friend and wife try to murder him. Apparently "Douglas Quaid" has only existed for a few weeks and his entire life was a setup in order to keep Carl Hauser, his real name, under wraps. Hauser used to work for the guy who runs Mars, Vilos Cohaagen Ronny Cox and Hauser learned things he shouldn't know, but now that those memories are coming out, Quaid needs to "get your ass to Mars" and finish the job.
Upon arriving on Mars, Quaid meets several people who know Hauser, and they work together to figure out what Cohaagen is hiding. As it turns out, Cohaagen is hiding an alien artifact that would make the Martian atmosphere breathable. Quaid and his friends successfully activate the artifact and the movie ends with a free Mars.
However, it also ends with a question. Was any of this real or was it all an implanted memory? Now that we have the basics laid out, let's look at each of the key moments and try to figure out the answer to this question. The key moment in Total Recall is the Ego Trip. That's the name that the Rekall company gives to the memory option that allows Douglas Quaid to believe he was a secret agent.
It's at this moment that the movie either shifts from "reality" to "dream state," or that Quaid's true memories come out. The movie says fairly clearly that Quaid's outburst, and his claims that his "cover" is being blown, cannot be the result of the Ego Trip, because they had not implanted it yet. However, the truth is that by this point we're already past the point of no return.
Quaid has already gone under for the procedure which means we can't necessarily take this statement as fact. In addition, the technicians begin to show Doug some Martian artifacts in order to get him acclimated to the things he will experience in his memory. They also ask him about the sort of woman he wants to meet, as that's part of the package. Everything that we see here, which takes place prior to Quaid going under, comes back later in the movie.
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