Directed By: Len Wiseman (Underworld)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston
Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, some sexual content, brief nudity, and language
Run Time: 1 hour, 58 minutes
Synopsis: Doug Quaid (Farrell) is a factory worker who wishes for a better life for him and his wife, Lori (Beckinsale). After a recurring dream where he's a spy working with another woman (Biel), he goes against the advice of a friend and visits Rekall - a business that can give you false memories for entertainment. Before he can get a spy memory implanted in him, all hell breaks loose as it appears he truly is a spy, his wife turns into an intelligence operative who tries to kill him, and he joins forces with his dream girl. But what is real and what is Rekall?
REVIEW
Andrew:
Hello readers! Tonight Sarah and I hit the theatre to catch Len Wiseman’s
remake of the classic 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger film Total Recall. This time
around we get Colin Farrell in Arnold’s lead role of Doug Quaid; Kate
Beckinsale as Lori, Quaid’s wife (or is she) originally played by Sharon Stone;
and Jessica Biel as Melina, a woman who may or may not know who Quaid really
is.
Sarah, this was the main
film we previewed this week, and I’m the only one of us who has seen the
original version directed by Paul Verhoeven, so I have some bit of reference to
go off of here. But you haven’t seen the original so you kind of went into this
fresh. So I want to get your take on what it was like going in having no
knowledge of it other than what you’ve seen in promotions. (FAIR WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN EITHER VERSION)
Sarah:
I went into it not having super high expectations but I was kind of excited to
see it because it seemed like a cool action flick. I was thinking it was going
to be a cerebral thriller, not knowing what was real and what was fake. It was
definitely what you said it would be in the preview – a gun-slinger movie. It
was very action-packed. There was actually very little of the movie that was
NOT action-packed. Which for a Len Wiseman movie you come to expect.
