The fierce and unrelenting pace, accompanied by a tongue-in-cheek strain of humor in the roughhouse screenplay, keeps the film moving like a juggernaut.
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03/01/07
Total Recall (1990)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:31
Rotten:8
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Under Paul Verhoeven's frenetic direction, Total Recall is a fast-paced rush of violence, gore, and humor that never slacks.
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside
Director: Paul Verhoeven
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Reviews for Total Recall
You'd think by the year 2084 villains would have learned they shouldn't mess with Mr. Biceps. But no-o-o-o.
01/01/00
Ridiculous, but also plenty of fun
11/06/01
...one of the best action flicks to emerge out of Hollywood in the '90s (or ever, really).
08/01/03
Recall is full of the musclebound action that [Schwarzenegger's] fans presumably enjoy. It also means that this Mars-bound movie is violent, nasty and expensive (it cost Tri-Star well over $60 million).
01/01/00
Top Critic[A] well paced, entertaining and thought-provoking piece of science fiction cinema, a truly superb, yet disregarded gem of that particular genre.
01/01/00
The future doesn't come any better.
02/09/06
Verhoeven keeps the whole thing chugging along neatly with a huge dollop of ultra-violence and gore. Schwarzenegger is at his best ever.
01/01/00
Melding the ever-more-workable Schwarzenegger mystique with a better-than-average science-fiction premise, the director Paul Verhoeven has come up with a vigorous, superviolent interplanetary thriller that packs in wallops with metronomic regularity.
05/20/03
Top CriticNo review available.
02/17/03
Say what you will about Verhoeven's penchant for extravagant theatrics, when he's not yanking the arms off people or putting bullets in their forehead, he tells a good story.
02/13/07
A worthy entry in the dystopian cycle launched by Blade Runner, this seems less derivative than most of its predecessors yet equally accomplished in its straight-ahead storytelling, with plenty of provocative satiric undertones and scenic details.
03/01/07
Top CriticNo review available.
07/15/03
Watching it now especially, it seems even more ahead of its time with it’s altered-reality storyline.
09/10/02
Worryingly satisfying in a purely gruesome, beat-em-up kinda way.
05/12/01
This futuristic science fiction is based on a Philip K. Dick short story, and features award-winning special effects.
03/10/03
It should please pretty much anyone who likes science fiction films. It should have a broad range of appeal on many levels.
01/01/00
Schwarzenegger has enough inherent charm and likeability that he's better off when he just lets the story pull him along, as he does here.
01/01/00
No review available.
01/07/05
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