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Total Recall

2012

Len Wiseman

Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston ...

5.2

17,474

Sci-Fi. Action The devastation of chemical war has divided Earth into two superpowers at the end of the 21st Century—the United Federation of Britain and the Colony. While the UFB and the Colony struggle for supremacy, a simple factory worker, Doug Quaid (Colin Farrell), dreams of going to the planet Mars. Tired of his tedious life, Quaid visits Rekall—a company that implants artificial memories. Rekall employee McClane persuades Quaid to be implanted ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"The best thing about Wiseman's movie is the tactile quality of its imagined urban environments (...)The talented and fiercely physical Biel's musculature is more expressive than most of the dialogue (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'Total Recall' is well-crafted, high energy sci-fi. (...) It never touched me emotionally, though, the way the 1990 film did (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Jen Chaney The Washington Post	"While it may not be a fully realized take on Dick's forward-thinking work, it's still a far better film than the Verhoeven version (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"The remake has no grace notes, or grace, no nuance, no humanity, no character quirks, no surprises in the dialogue and no humor"	NEG
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"This premise contains the seeds of an interesting economic and political allegory, but the ambitions of the filmmakers (...) lie in the direction of maximum noise and minimum sense"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The 'Total Recall' reboot is a futuristic fiasco, two hours you'll never get back - and every minute is a bad memory (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"	NEG

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