Total Recall (2012)
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Critic Consensus: 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.
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Cast
as Douglas Quaid/Hauser
as Lori Quaid
as Melina
as Cohaagen
as Harry
as Mathias
as McClane
as Marek
as Resistance Fighter
as Military Adjutant
as Bohemian Nurse
as Bank Clerk
as Slacker
as Rekall Receptionist
as Resistance Woman
as Hammond
as Factory Foreman
as Three-Breasted Woman
as Hauser Cover Identity
as Hauser Cover Identity
as Hauser Cover Identity
as Officer
as Sentry Lieutenant
as Lead Sentry
as Security Sentry
as Sentry
as Sentry
as Sentry
as Sentry Trooper
as Synth Captain
as Murray
as Prostitute
as Girl on Balcony
as Red-Headed Lady
as Immigration Officer
as Newscaster
as Newscaster
as Newscaster
as Newscaster
as Newscaster
as Newscaster
as Fall Announcer
as ATC Dispatcher
as Terminal Announcer
as Chopper
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Critic Reviews for Total Recall
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'Total Recall' is Hollywood at its worst: pointless, witless, and so very unnecessary.
With a new generation of visual effects at his command, director Len Wiseman has the ability to paint on a broader canvas, but since we see this caliber of movie magic on a regular basis it's no longer an Event.
"Total Recall" is a toned-down, smoothed-out version of an amped-up, bug-eyed classic.
This is a taut, serviceable sci-fi thriller with a couple of neat visual ideas, and if you're not familiar with either the Schwarzenegger version or the original story, the brain-bending twists alone will take you a reasonably long way.
Casting and visuals are an upgrade, but we get far too many action sequences and not enough of the mind games.
I was no particular fan of the first Total Recall, but I confess that this flat, by-the-numbers remake made me a tad nostalgic for its bombastic preposterousness.
Audience Reviews for Total Recall
Okay, so its not the original, but what is any more? What is "original", f'cryinoutloud? Ain't it only a conceit? Taken on its own merits then, there's plenty of action and adventure here - they're in some futuristic environment - with plenty of chases and shooting and punching robot stormtroopers, the meat and potatoes this genre demands, so what else do ya want? Bad reputations aren't always justified. This delivers the goods.
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May not have the charme of Schwarzenegger's original, but delivers non-stop chases and action in a pretty cool production design. Entertaining enough!
Super Reviewer
You can skip this one.
Super Reviewer
Total Recall Quotes
| Douglas Quaid: | Why you trying to kill me? Talk! Or we can skip straight til' death do us part! |
| Lori Quaid: | I'm not your wife |
| Douglas Quaid: | That's bullshit we've been married seven years! |
| Lori Quaid: | I'm UFB Police Intel, assigned to play your wife, six weeks ago I didn't even know you. |
| Douglas Quaid: | Our marriage? |
| Lori Quaid: | What can I say? I give good wife. Come on, deep down did you really believe someone like me, would marry someone like you, and live, in this shithole!? |
| Lori Quaid: | Are you fucking kidding me? |
| Lori Quaid: | Get some sleep. |
| Douglas Quaid: | Sleep scares me. |
| Lori Quaid: | Well, dream of me. |
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