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Apr 2, 2012 · Such madness was all part of what made Total Recall so special, of course.Paul Verhoeven, among the most slyly intelligent directors then working in Hollywood, new what he was making: a trashy ...
Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/24/24 Full Review Simone C Classic Schwarzy movie, entertaining, easy to follow, good story, good acting. And I am a huge fan of Michael Ironside. And ...
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- Paul Verhoeven
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- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- 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...
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Yet this new Total Recall is a lot of fun in its own right as a big, flashy action movie with loads of incredibly cool high-tech ideas standing in for good character-driven ones.
Nov 7, 2021 · Streaming now on Netflix is Len Wiseman’s remake of Total Recall, a film that’s surprisingly still worth watching, especially if irony-induced thrills are your bag. The bones of 2012’s Total ...
Aug 3, 2012 · Total Recall: Directed by Len Wiseman. With Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston. A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.
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Nov 21, 2020 · Total Recall Review. 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. Total Recall was an unlikely but perfect confluence of elements, coming together almost impossibly ...
