Total Recall
Lions Gate

May 31st, 2005

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Rating: 3.9 / 5.0 (412 votes)

Released: 2005-05-31
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Total Recall by Lions Gate

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Movie Details
Director Paul Verhoeven	Studio Lions Gate	Runtime 113	Rated R (Restricted)	Binding DVD

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Description

An Earthman of the future goes to Mars, driven by nightmares of his past.

Actors

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rachel Ticotin
Sharon Stone
Michael Ironside
Ronny Cox

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Editorial Review

This science fiction blockbuster from 1990 began its production life as a very different movie than the one that was released. An adaptation of the Philip K. Dick short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” Total Recall was originally conceived of with Richard Dreyfuss starring as a Walter Mitty-like character who experiences a variety of artificially induced fantasies. The movie we know is a mega-budget action epic set on Mars. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a normal working man who discovers that his entire reality has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Oscar-winning special effects and violent action propel the twisting plot, in which Arnold manipulates his manipulators in a world of dazzling high technology. Director Paul Verhoeven (Robocop) indulges his usual penchant for gratuitous bloodshed, but the movie has enough cleverness to rise above its excesses. –Jeff Shannon