Good video rental......if u like Total Recall

Rating: Null/10 (15 August 2002)

People seemed to fall victim to the Hollywood Hype Machine on this flick. Look, it is a Spielberg.....that's all. He rips off Blade Runner, Fifth Element etc. Don't expect anything great and you won't be disappointed. At least people aren't expecting Tom Cruise to act anymore.....so no disappointment there. Sure the product placements are irritating, but the Bond films have them too. Sure the ever-so-socialist Spielberg makes it a point, coincidence of course, to name one of the angelic precogs, Daschle. A plug for the heinous Democrat Tom Daschle? (Naaaaah, never!) Other funky wierdness at play......can't be pure coincidence that Caroline Lagerfelt has the monster mole to the right of her philtrum that is focused on by the camera exactly as happens with the Wonder Years kid in the recently released Goldmember movie. A little bit of cross-pollination movie marketing going on there? I dunno...but I do rate movies as: Must see in theatre, Ok on video, or Total Waste of Time. This rates as a good video rental. The concept is cool. I would give it a 6/10 for entertainment despite its many flaws and the almost unbearable Spielberg.