Do you suffer from long term memory loss?

Rating: 7/10 (18 July 2006)

Arnold Schwarzengger stars as Doug Quaid (Persumably no relation to Dennis or Randy) an average joe who gets an artificial vacation only to be swayed into taking an ego trip which his presumed secret agent fantasy turns out to be real to which millions of bad guys come to kill him, there is also about martians, mutants, rebels and politics regarding the price of air. The book originally had the character (Named Quail in the story) get a secret agent vacation to break up his dull life only to wind up awakening his past, where he actually was a secret agent, in the movie though it basically toys with the idea that this is either a dream, his artificial vacation, reality or a product of his lobotomized mind. Once again this all makes the movie ambitious and frequently enjoyable but Verhoeven's kill crazy antics are generally too overwrought for the material and therefore the action takes priority over the story. However there is enough greatness to work and it is an entertaining movie. It just isn't as great as it could have been.
* * * out of 4-(Good)