Total Recall

Release Date:August 3rd, 2012 

Starring:Colin Farrell,Kate Beckinsale,Jessica Biel,

 Bryan Cranston,Bokeem Woodbine 

Director:Len Wiseman 

Writer:Kurt Wimmer, Mark Bomback, Ronald Shusett,

 Dan O'Bannon, Jon Povill, Philip K. Dick 

Studio:Columbia Pictures 

Genre:Drama, Sci-Fi 

Official Site:welcometorecall.com

 Rating: for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, some sexual content, brief nudity, and language 

Runtime:2 hours 01 minute

The original “Total Recall” was a masterful science fiction action film, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1990.

A new version, starring Colin Farrell, was released this week, following the same general plotlines, and it doesn’t break any new ground.
Although very loosely based on a 1990 movie very loosely based on a Philip K. Dick short story, the latest version of "Total Recall" draws its key concepts from "Seinfeld."

The new movie is both a close-talker and a high-talker. Filled with ponderous close-ups and scenes framed too tight to convey a sense of what's happening, "Total Recall" is also loud and agitated, seldom pausing to take a breath.
This time, it's Colin Farrell attempting to fill Arnold Schwarzenegger's ego as the very un-self aware secret agent Doug Quaid. Tired of his worker's life, he visits a memory implant company to get a happy haze of adventures he could never afford in real life.
In Dick's clever story, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," one of Total Rekall's apparently regular customers is a man who may be a police agent, in which capacity he seems to have visited Mars, where he dimly remembers killing a man, perhaps with a weapon supplied by alien field mice, who could be scouts for an invasion of Earth. It's hard to know for sure.

The cheerfully, violently silly 1990 movie, directed by Paul Verhoeven with brutal cartoonish aplomb, catapulted Schwarzenegger's protagonist far from Dick's memory company, all the way to Mars and into a resistance struggle against the power structure. Along the way, he finds out his "wife" is an agent assigned to keep him on mission, and falls for a feisty resistance fighter.
The new script, credited to Mark Bomback, James Vanderbilt and Kurt Wimmer, keeps Rekall and the dueling beauties, but in a different setting. Now, the future is true nightmare, since the only remaining countries are a sort of Greater United Kingdom with lots of elevated highways, and a Singapore-esque Australia, where the neon signs are in Chinese and Russian, and it's always raining. 

 

As a director, it's clear what Len Wiseman brings to the table: his lovely wife, Kate Beckinsale. He directed her in the first two "Underworld" movies and shared screenwriting credit on the third. If you have seen any of those movies, you probably are searching for a local Rekall outlet to have the memories wiped, except for the image of Kate in spandex.

YOUTUBE VIDEO LINKS
1.Total Recall 2012 Official Trailer
2.Creatures Go See Total Recall (Movie Trip)






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