Story Line
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.
“They stole his mind. Now, he wants it back.”
Top Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Douglas Quaid / Hauser
Rachel Ticotin
Melina
Sharon Stone
Lori Quaid
Ronny Cox
Vilos Cohaagen
Michael Ironside
Richter
Marshall Bell
George / Kuato
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Rating
7.3/ 10
Release Date
1990-06-01
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
ActionAdventureScience Fiction
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User Reviews (5)
Gimly
8/10
•3/19/2018Intrinsically Verhoeven, _Total Recall_ is a film from my youth that I probably shouldn't have been watching quite as early as I did, but that I still love to this day. All the practical effects, exquisite violence & nudity and provocative sci-fi the...
John Chard
8/10
•2/14/2019Verhoeven bonkers adaptation of a P. K. Dick story.
Doug Quaid keeps getting recurring dreams about a visit to Mars. In spite of his friends warnings, he decides to have a memory implanted Mars holiday. But during the implantation he remembers be...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•5/29/2022Aside from maybe "Predator" (1987) this is probably my favourite outing from Arnold Schwarzenegger. He ("Quaid") goes off to have an harmless implant of memories from an holiday on Mars (that he hasn't had) only to find that his life starts to unwind...
GenerationofSwine
10/10
•1/12/2023Man, it's almost like Saw with it's torture-porn thing... only the over-the-top gore actually fits beautifully into the story in the most entertaining way possible, even when it is so 80s cheese that it's almost comical.
But the ultra-violence is ...