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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 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 CriticWorryingly satisfying in a purely gruesome, beat-em-up kinda way.
05/12/01
Top Critic[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
This futuristic science fiction is based on a Philip K. Dick short story, and features award-winning special effects.
03/10/03
Neither Arnold Schwarzenegger nor Paul Verhoeven have stretched their talents here.
01/01/00
Perhaps it goes without saying that Total Recall is no The Terminator, but let the records show.
09/27/01
There may be people who overlook the Arnold Schwarzenegger performance in Total Recall who think he isn't really acting. But the performance is one of the reasons the movie works so well.
01/01/00
Top CriticYou'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
Schwarzenegger has enough inherent charm and likeability that he's better off when he just lets the story pull him along, as he does here.
01/01/00
A gratuitous explosion of vainglory and guts, the movie is all firecrackers and giblets and broken glass. The overall effect is like wading through hospital waste.
01/01/00
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a fool to think he'll make it as the Johnny Carson of action films.
07/25/01
Watching it now especially, it seems even more ahead of its time with it’s altered-reality storyline.
09/10/02
It should please pretty much anyone who likes science fiction films. It should have a broad range of appeal on many levels.
01/01/00
...people are allowed to change their minds
07/10/05
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 Critic...one of the best action flicks to emerge out of Hollywood in the '90s (or ever, really).
08/01/03
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
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
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