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 (Sharon Stone), Quaid goes to Rekall, a company that implants artificial memories, so he can "remember" visiting the red planet that is now being settled by human inhabitants. However, Quaid is actually an amnesiac secret agent from Mars--or is he? Enemy agents led by a thug named Richter (Michael Ironside) start trying to kill him before Quaid remembers anything more. Bullets and bone-crunching mayhem follow in large doses as Quaid heads to Mars to deal with mutants, ancient alien races, and Cohagen (Ronny Cox), a greedy capitalist controlling the colonists' air supply, in an effort to remember his real identity. TOTAL RECALL is based on the story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick and was a big box-office hit, helping to firmly establish director Paul Verhoeven as a specialist in darkly satiric, blood-drenched genre films. His next stop: BASIC INSTINCT, also with Stone.
Rating: R (MPAA) Rating Reason: n/a Runtime: 113 minutes DVD Code: Region 1 US, CA Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Color: Color Special Edition Rating: Blu-ray Disc Features:
Blue BD Case
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
DTS HD High Resolution ES Audio
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound EX Audio - English
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Featurettes - 1. "Visions of Mars"
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus powered by Metamenus Technology David Knell, Marshall Bell, Roy Brocksmith, Mel Johnson, Ray Baker, Raymond Baker, Michael Champion, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Ronny Cox, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Rosemary Dunsmore
Paul Verhoeven
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 (Sharon Stone), Quaid goes to Rekall, a company that implants artificial memories, so he can "remember" visiting the red planet that is now being settled by human inhabitants. However, Quaid is actually an amnesiac secret agent from Mars--or is he? Enemy agents led by a thug named Richter (Michael Ironside) start trying to kill him before Quaid remembers anything more. Bullets and bone-crunching mayhem follow in large doses as Quaid heads to Mars to deal with mutants, ancient alien races, and Cohagen (Ronny Cox), a greedy capitalist controlling the colonists' air supply, in an effort to remember his real identity. TOTAL RECALL is based on the story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick and was a big box-office hit, helping to firmly establish director Paul Verhoeven as a specialist in darkly satiric, blood-drenched genre films. His next stop: BASIC INSTINCT, also with Stone. () In 2084, Quaid, a construction worker on Earth is haunted by dreams of another life on Mars. He goes to Rekall Inc. to have artificial memories of Mars planted in his head. However, during this procedure, a number of agents from Mars fear he will discover his mysterious true identity. Paul Verhoeven's film, based on a Philip K. Dick story, is a wild ride with eye-popping special effects.
() A cable-TV series, TOTAL RECALL 2070, followed in 1998.
() "...TOTAL RECALL is a gut cruncher on a grand scale..."
Rolling Stone (07/12/1990) "...A thunderous tribute to its star's determination to create, out of the unlikeliest raw materials, a patently synthetic yet surprisingly affable leading man..."
New York Times (06/01/1990) "See you at the party, Richter!"--Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) after dispatching of Richter (Michael Ironside)
() "...Spectacular....TOTAL RECALL soars when it sends up its conventions..."
Los Angeles Times (06/01/1990) "...Arnie does what he does best....TOTAL RECALL merits rose-tinted rewatching..."
Total Film (09/01/2000) "[N]otable as one of the last great FX extravaganzas of the pre-digital era."
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