Total Recall |  | Director: Paul Verhoeven
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  263 reviews
Sales Rank: 3937
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: LGED20203D
UPC: 012236170488
EAN: 0012236170488
ASIN: B00070FX5U
Theatrical Release Date: 1990
Publication Date: 1990
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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
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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
Product Description
Arnold Schwarzenegger is perfectly cast as Quaid, a 2084 construction worker haunted by dreams of Mars in this crowd-pleasing science fiction spectacle. Against the wishes of his sexy blonde wife (Sharon Stone), Quaid goes to Rekall, a company that implants artificial memories, so he can "remember" visiting the red planet that is now being settled by human inhabitants. However, Quaid is actually an amnesiac secret agent from Mars--or is he? Enemy agents led by a thug named Richter (Michael Ironside) start trying to kill him before Quaid remembers anything more. Bullets and bone-crunching mayhem follow in large doses as Quaid heads to Mars to deal with mutants, ancient alien races, and Cohagen (Ronny Cox), a greedy capitalist controlling the colonists' air supply, in an effort to remember his real identity. TOTAL RECALL is based on the story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick and was a big box-office hit, helping to firmly establish director Paul Verhoeven as a specialist in darkly satiric, blood-drenched genre films. His next stop: BASIC INSTINCT, also with Stone.
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 Schwarzenegger, Stone and Dick at their Best March 13, 2010
Grant Barton (Sundance, Utah)
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone give the best performances of their careers in this awesome Philip K. Dick story with more plot twists than I've ever seen in a coherent movie.
Total Recall (1990) February 17, 2010
N. Anno (Indiana)
Paul Verhoeven's Arnie-boasting sci-fi saga is a whirlwind of violence and pace that investigates the connection between actuality and fantasy, and does so with swagger. Based on a story by Philip K. Dick, this film, which also stars Sharon Stone as Schwarzenegger's wife, was a great financial success (despite its then-huge $65 million budget) and added to the appeal of both of its star actors. As one of the more memorable articles of Contemporary Era science-fiction cinema, Total Recall is a worthy addition to your DVD (or even Blu-ray) collection.
 Limited extras February 16, 2010
Richard H. Sutor (New Castle, DE USA)
The review by Wyatt must be for some version of this film other than the blu ray edition. The only extra on the blu ray edition is Visions of Mars.
Entertaining February 14, 2010
Willy D. Reviewer (San Francisco,CA)
The director miscast the two female leads. Sharon Stone should have been the girl on Mars, and not Arnold's wife.
None the less, it is entertaining and worth renting.
 good movie, horrible blu-ray January 21, 2010
robsoncps (Sao Paulo, sp, Brasil)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you have the dvd don't dare to buy this garbage. I am not talking about the movie. Movie is great.
PQ is horrible, there is not difference between dvd and blu-ray.
I almost threw it away. Garbage.
I am very disappointed with many blu-ray quality. I don't know if I'll buy blu-ray again.
Garbage, garbage, garbage. Stay away from that.
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