Dream Or Reality?

Rating: 5/10 (30 September 2013)

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Douglas Quaid, a happily married construction worker with a beautiful wife(played by Sharon Stone). The only problem is that he has a recurring dream where he is on Mars in mortal danger. Despite the disapproval of his wife and co-workers, he goes to Rekall Inc. where he gets the Mars implanted memory that is just as good(if not better) than the real thing. Something goes wrong though, and Quaid awakens to a nightmare where he really(?) is a secret agent, and his wife and co-workers are in on a conspiracy that leads back to Mars run by a corrupt administrator(played by Ronny Cox) who targets Quaid for death by his chief enforcer(played by Michael Ironside) after Quaid makes it to Mars.
Large-scale Sci-Fi action film based on the Philip K. Dick story is full of elaborate set pieces but short on credibility. Arnold is appealing, but film doesn't make enough use of its "Is it real?" premise that is far more intriguing than the standard alien artifact subplot, and overly violent story. Too bad, though it ends just when it could really start to get interesting! (No coincidence I think...)