DVD Movie Rating for: Total Recall

4 out of 5

Movie Plot of: Total Recall

What is reality when you can't trust your memory. Arnold Schwartzenegger is an Earthbound construction worker who keeps having dreams about Mars. A trip to a false memory transplant service for an imaginary trip to Mars goes terribly wrong and another personality surfaces. When his old self returns, he finds groups of his friends and several strangers seem to have orders to kill him. He finds records his other self left him that tell him to get to Mars to join up with the underground. The reality of the situation is constantly in question. Who is he? Which personality is correct? Which version of reality is true?

Douglas Quaid is haunted by the same dream every night about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Coohagen. Now the story really begins and its a rollercoaster ride until the massive end of the movie.

DVD Production Details of: Total Recall

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Box set

Studio: Twentieth Century Fox

DVD Release Date: October 16, 2001
DVD Features:
Theatrical trailer(s)

Four Arnold Schwarzenegger films: Commando (1985) (Letterbox 1.85:1, 90 minutes), Predator (1987) (Letterbox 1.85:1, 107 minutes), The Running Man(1987) (Letterbox 1.85:1, 101 minutes) and Total Recall (1990) (qv) (Letterbox/Pan & Scan 1.85:1, 113 minutes).

Widescreen letterbox format

Number of discs: 4

DVD Easter Eggs

On the extra features page, highlight the teaser trailer (the option in the middle) and press left. A picture of a t.v. will appear, hit enter and watch.

On the special edition: Scroll down to highlight the main menu then press left twice on your remote to highlight the jvc logo then press enter

Cast of the movie: Total Recall

• Arnold Schwarzenegger .... Douglas Quaid
• Rachel Ticotin .... Melina
• Sharon Stone .... Lori
• Ronny Cox .... Vilos Cohaagen
• Michael Ironside .... Richter
• Marshall Bell .... George/Kuato
• Mel Johnson Jr. .... Benny
• Michael Champion .... Helm
• Roy Brocksmith .... Dr. Edgemar
• Ray Baker .... Bob McClane
• Rosemary Dunsmore .... Dr. Lull
• David Knell .... Ernie
• Alexia Robinson .... Tiffany
• Dean Norris .... Tony
• Mark Carlton .... Bartender

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Total Recall

Reviews of the movie: Total Recall

I'm a big fan of action films and in this pack are two of the all time great action films: Predator and Total Recall. those films are classics.

Superior Script Helps Solid Sci-Fi Actioner
Arnold Schwarzenegger's best film to date is a solid sci-fi actioner mixing a superior script with a good cast, some impressive special effects, and one of Jerry Goldsmith's most rip-roaring scores ever.

Based on a Philip K. Dick short story, the film is about Douglas Quaid, a construction worker in late-21st century America who has a curious passion for the planet Mars, now colonized and tyrannized by corporate dictator Vilos Cohaagen. His passion has led to several violent nightmares that alarm his wife Lori, and eventually leads him to Rekall, a company that implants fake "memories" of exciting vacations in the brains of curious clients. But implanting a fake memory of a trip to Mars unlocks something else in Quaid, and suddenly this lowly construction worker is pursued by his worker friends, his wife, and a deranged assassin named Richter.

Making things more confusing, Quaid is contacted by a "buddy" from Mars he doesn't remember and given a suitcase containing a vast compilation of Martian money, weird tools, a hologram projection wristwatch, and a video message machine from.......himself!

Quaid is really Douglas Hauser, an assassin for Cohaagen who has fallen in love with a Martian guerrilla leader (Rachel Ticotin) and who has had his entire life "erased" by Cohaagen. The answers to Quaid's questions lie on Mars, but as he is pursued by Richter, Quaid finds out even more about Mars, including the secret to the planet's pyramid mines - a secret Cohaagen can't afford to let out.

But Quaid is double-crossed, and by the most unlikely person imaginable, leading to a brutal slaughter of the Martian resistance and reimplantation for Quaid.

The film's excitement comes from its seemingly endless action scenes. If anything, there are a few too many action scenes and a bit too much gore - the riot in Venusville, the famed spaceport gunfight and oxygen hurricane, and a battle of underground drills within the surface of Mars are scenes that could and should have been left out and replaced by more character interplay. Also excessive is the film's gore, particularly in the portrayal of the mysterious Kuato, who should have been portrayed as an alien being in the form of Land Of The Lost's Enik.