Total Recall

[yoco]

Release Date: August 3, 2012
Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Director: Len Wiseman
Screenwriter: Kurt Wimmer, Mark Bomback
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, John Cho, Bill Nighy
Genre: Action, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available

"Total Recall" is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he's got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.

[shawshankraj]

Only CGI look good..Unnecessary Remake.

[slikrapid]

seems they somehow forgot to mention that this is a remake of Total Recall (1990), a very good action movie with a. schwarzenegger (& pre-basic-instinct sharon stone), though there is a shy hint of this in the txt: '...inspired anew'

the company that can turn your dreams into real memories.

(past) dreams already are real memories (real memory being one that exists as a memory)

even though he's got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life

beautiful wife ~ non-frustrating life or a cure for frustrations? lol

Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world

so now even the 'free world' needs police (and is controlled by some chancellor), eh?

the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.

you don't say, the world needs another hero to save the day (minimum requirements) or the world (recommended requirements), offering many goodies in return (or as a result thereof), the only problem is they managed to misinterpret a few (to put it mildly) things, like:

the fate of the world doesn't really 'hang in the balance' as if its somehow fragile or prone to critical instabilities which need someone to fix them - generally, the ('final') fate is the same for everything and everyone in the world, what differs is the way one reaches that ('final') point/event and the 'state' one achieves as the event arrives - so thats what 'changing your fate' really means: changing 'the way' & 'the state', not changing the event itself - regarding balance in the broader sense, no matter what one does there will always be a kind of balance present, one's actions simply make a change within that balance, in other words, the balance cannot be disturbed or destroyed or violated - conclusion: the world can't be saved, no matter how hard one or many might try to, what they really are doing is trying to save their 'way of living' (from changing into something potentially undesirable)...until the aforementioned event comes a-knocking

one's true identity is one's true self, certainly not the role(s) one is currently playing (which includes you, the reader of this txt )

true love is selfless love, certainly not that with a life partner (which has more or less elements of selfishness)

true fate of anyone (and anything) is reaching the final point of one's life cycle (birth...death), in the broader sense it could be defined as: reaching the final point of one's existence (starting to experience one's existence (as an individual)...ceasing to experience one's existence (as an individual))

notes:
- by 'fate' was meant: 'the outcome', though other meanings come close enough
- by 'state' was meant: primarily the so-called spiritual state or level, as others have lesser relevance


as for the trailer, the cgi looks quite decent, though the scenes remind of another movie (the fifth element) - somehow i don't think it will be able to surpass the entertainment level of its predecessor, something very common among current (re)makes, furthermore if it ends up even just 'decent', that would be an accomplishment in this day & age

[shawshankraj]

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