A great action movie that actually, god forbid, has a plot!

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2013)

Let me start out by saying, wow! Arnold Schwarzenegger actually plays a convincing real person! Aside from his cloud-like body, where his arm takes up the entire screen with its muscular awesomeness, he convinced me that he was a regular construction worker with an intense desire to go to "maas" (Mars in Schwarzeneggerish). A, cliché words incoming, compelling and thought-provoking story centers around Arnold's character, Douglas Quaid, going to a company called Recall that provides fake memories of vacations, so he can take a vacation to Mars without having to make his wife unhappy. He chooses the popular "Secret Agent" theme for his vacation, but something goes wrong and he is thrust into a conspiracy, where he discovers that he is really a covert agent for a corrupt businessman who wants to control Mars's air supplies. It keeps you guessing until the end, with clever and intense scenes that will really make you wonder if Quaid is only playing out his Mars vacation at Recall, or if it is all real.
Finally, one cannot make a review of Total Recall without mentioning two things. One, the three-boobed prostitute mutant. This rather unexpected moment is both hilarious and philosophical. Weird isn't it? The second thing is Arnold's amazing one-liners. Don't make the mistake in thinking this isn't an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Quips like "See you at the party, Richter!" and "Consider that a divorce!" are just the beginning of a pool of quotable lines.