Total Recall | 
| Director: Paul Verhoeven
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 1529
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): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: LGED20203D
UPC: 012236170488
EAN: 0012236170488
ASIN: B00070FX5U
Theatrical Release Date: 1990
Publication Date: 1990
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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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 Entertainment for all your senses July 3, 2009
Reef Shark (Houston, Texas)
There are certain films that aim to entertain and try their very hardest to keep the audience entertained, if not on the edge of their seat, but rarely are they also capable of making the audience think. This movie is fun from start to finish, but it also manages to keep you thinking about reality and the implications of the ideas presented in the movie.
Total Recall is certainly one of the better films to come from director Paul Verhoeven whose career I must say has its ups and down. He's has RoboCop, which I also thought was a fun action/satire, but then films such as Starship Troopers had me far less impressed. He is certainly better when adapting short stories in a satirical fashion than he is adapting professionally written stories and trying to satirize them like he did with Starship Troopers- Verhoeven's resulting film seeming more like an insult to its source material instead of an adaptation.
Total Recall movie is based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, who also wrote the stories behind Blade Runner, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. Unlike Blade Runner and Minority Report this is one of the more satirical approaches on sci-fi and it does have some good laughs among its fun sets and action, but like those two films it provides some of the best science-fiction imagery to date.
Of course, being released in 1990, what better male lead in an action film than Arnold Schwarzenegger? Now, the future California Governor has never been the best actor, but he manages to find one of his stand-out roles in Douglass Quaid, a man who is under constant danger and isn't even capable of knowing whether the dangers he faces are real or not!
Tired with his life as a construction worker Douglass Quaid is set on having a vacation to Mars. Only problem is he's a tad bit low on cash and his wife isn't very keen on taking a trip to the Martian surface- which is currently under a state of civil unrest and urban warfare between the mutants and the evil business leader, Vilos Cohaagon, who quite literally has an airtight grip over the citizens of Mars. Since going to Mars is out of the question Quaid goes for the next best thing: fake memories.
After a visit to Rekall he has it arranged for him to be given a vacation to Mars from the perspective of a secret agent on a crucial mission. This dream comes a bit too true as he is thrust into a fight for his life, never knowing whether or not what he is seeing is real or not. The audience can't tell for that matter for there is enough evidence to support either option.
Total Recall is good escapist entertainment and is often quite funny in a black sort of way. Arnold Schwarzenegger is charismatic in the lead and manages to deliver several good one-liners (other than the cheesy "Screw you!"). The art direction, special effects, costumes, make-up, and sets are all quite convincing and fun to look at and overall it is a film that always keeps your attention in some form or another. I give a strong recommendation to Total Recall, but the film does seem to stay in check and never take to initiative to go above and beyond like Blade Runner and Minority Report have.
 Total Recall July 2, 2009
Mark T. Von Seggern (Denver, CO USA)
Not a BIG favorite of mine, but is a movie that fills a time or need when there is absolutely nothing else to do and of course I am a Sciences Fiction fan. Also if you are a fan of Arnold Schwarzeneger then this maybe one to see.
Awesome 80-90's SciFi May 26, 2009
Erik Johnson (EBay, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the best SciFi from the 80s (Ok, 1990). You still don't know weather its virtual or not.
One of my favorite Arnold movies May 25, 2009
PB
Quality of the DVD is very good, price is excellent, so I'm happy! No matter what anyone says about the quality of the special effects (this isn't a new movie, after all), the movie is a lot of fun and completely entertaining, particularly if you love science fiction like I do.
 Not the best, but creative concept May 22, 2009
Juan D. Lopez Medina (Medellin, Colombia, SA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw it when was new, but just right now I can get the DVD, to me, it is one of three movies where you can find the original concept used on Matrix, it's the reason why I think Total Recall is a great movie. (the other two are Dark City and Ghost in the Shell)
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