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02/09/06
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
Reviews for Total Recall
Top CriticWorryingly satisfying in a purely gruesome, beat-em-up kinda way.
05/12/01
Top CriticTotal Recall is fine entertainment, complete with breathtaking action sequences and special effects that impress even in these computer-generated times.
09/12/08
Top CriticUgly, stupid, loud, offensive, and pointlessly violent.
03/01/07
Top CriticMediocre sci-fi. Gained a cult following, for some unknown reason.
05/28/03
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
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.
03/01/07
Top CriticPerhaps it goes without saying that Total Recall is no The Terminator, but let the records show.
09/27/01
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
[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
No review available.
01/08/04
Neither Arnold Schwarzenegger nor Paul Verhoeven have stretched their talents here.
01/01/00
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
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a fool to think he'll make it as the Johnny Carson of action films.
07/25/01
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