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- Produced by Columbia Pictures in association with producers Neal H. Moritz and Toby Jaffe's Original Film, Total Recall was released in North America on August 3, 2012, to mixed-to-negative reviews, with critics comparing it unfavorably to the original. The film grossed over $211.8 million worldwide and was considered a box office bomb.
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Overall, Total Recall is not only a masterful action movie, but one that uses the extravagant action to hide its manipulation and subversion of the audience’s expectations. Total Recall ranks up with Blade Runner, No Country For Old Men, Birdman, and A Clockwork Orange as masterpieces of the craft.
- GOOD or BAD: Total Recall (2012) : r/movies - Reddit
I don't know why everyone is hating on it for its terrible...
- GOOD or BAD: Total Recall (2012) : r/movies - Reddit
I don't know why everyone is hating on it for its terrible acting, Arnold is definitely not a good actor in the original either. It is pretty faithful to the idea of the book and it has some unique ideas. The best part are the visuals and setting. The action is pretty good though so it's really not a bad time. 6.
Apr 2, 2012 · It’s not unfair to say that, compared to the relative subtlety of the Philip K Dick writings that inspired it, 1990’s Total Recall was about as subtle as an escaped rhinoceros running down...
- A Noirish, Pulp Narrative
- Technological Detachment
- A Rare Big-Budget Spectacle
Total Recall marks a rare confluence of extraordinary talents and technologies. The source material is excellent. Phillip K. Dick’s twist-laden, science fiction narrative, interweaving speculation about potential future technologies with the social and psychological interrogation of the present world, is adapted for the screen brilliantly (and witt...
At the same time, Verhoeven’s images have a kind of technological detachment. His camera floats around, swiftly moving between bodies and things, capturing action with a clinical vision. In this way, Verhoeven’s images — and films — are relentlessly unsentimental. In his universe, countless bystanders are killed in a bloody, vicious fashion without...
Total Recall is an increasingly rare, big-budget, Hollywood spectacle. Hard-edged and brutal, it is far removed from the “family-friendly” blockbuster film popularised by the Spielberg-Lucascomplex in the 1970s (characterised by a wan, often uninteresting, palatability). With its economical, fast-paced narrative embedded in a spectacular and detail...
- Ari Mattes
While it boasts some impressive action sequences, Total Recall lacks the intricate plotting, wry humor, and fleshed out characters that made the original a sci-fi classic. Read Critics Reviews ...
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- Len Wiseman
- PG-13
- Colin Farrell
Director Len Wiseman brings in all that is good and bad in modern day film making into this movie. He shoots Total Recall with an over reliance on shaky cam and lens flare, almost like a "Paul Greengrass meets J.J Abrams".
Nov 21, 2020 · Paul Verhoeven's classic 1990 sci-fi action-thriller, Total Recall, is one of Schwarzenegger's all-time best movies, earning itself a stunning native 4K release courtesy of Studiocanal, complete with Dolby Vision and Atmos.
