The best Sci-Fi movie of all-time. Schwarzenegger's best ever. Just goes to show you your past really can affect your present.

Rating: 9/10 (24 November 2000)

I know that the plot of Total Recall is confusing especially for anyone who just watches it for the first time, or for anyone who watches Total Recall many times and understands the plot such as myself, still the film makes me have very different thoughts and feelings it entertains your mind. In 1990 I knew when I first saw this film in the theater what a blast it was! It showed just how advanced film had become and just what a genius Paul Verhoeven was. As Verhoeven showed with his other films like "Robocop" he always gives great insight into what the future will look like as you can see this evidenced in Total Recall and "Robocop". Great story you have it Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger)who is placed on earth as a construction worker he finds himself happily married to the sexy Lori (Sharon Stone). Constantly Quaid continues to have dreams about Mars it's like he was once there. Then a trip to a memory agency called "Rekall" it finally hits Quaid he has really once been to Mars! You name it all hell breaks loose as former Quaid friend, but now enemy and terrorizing dictator Cohagen (Ronny Cox) begins the search with the evil Richter (Michael Ironside). No sweat though Quaid escapes to Mars to search for his real identity after he learned that his identity had been erased. On Mars Quaid once again meets with his true and past love the exotic Melina (Rachel Ticotin). Together they both fight the forces of evil and help the Martian community finally gain a life of freedom. Along the way Quaid meets a cab driver but later it turns out to be a Cohaggen worker. Anyway Benny (Mel Johnson Jr.) provides the funniest quote in the movie and perhaps one of the funniest of all-time in movie history. I'm sure anyone remembers it's the bar scene which includes the hooker {Benny: (to the three-breasted hooker) You make me wish I had three hands.} I never will forget that quote from the first time I heard it I died with laughter, I once repeated that around one of my friends and they nearly cracked up. Great and funny quote! Mention must be made that this is by far the sexiest Sharon Stone has ever looked! The first time I viewed Sharon Stone in Total Recall everything from her face, hair, body, and just anything about Sharon she's just so sexy! It's a shame that Sharon's character no matter how deadly had to be killed by a bullet through the head. That's the one part of the movie I hated to see. I could continue to go on and on about Total Recall, but I will finish by just saying the acting is great this is by far Arnold's best movie {Note: Arnold you need to make a sequel to this}. Michael Ironside and Ronny Cox are tremendous as the villains in this movie an audience can't ask for better villain characters than these two. And Roy Brocksmith (Dr. Edgemar) seemed to get plenty of work in front of the camera in the early 90's I also remember him making guest appearances on two episodes of HBO's Tales From The Crypt series. Where is Roy gone to? Total Recall has the gut crunching, white knuckle, nonstop action that you action buffs will enjoy. So see for yourself it's total war, total Schwarzenegger and the thrill of your entertainment life. And remember just as this film has a theme of the past and as I have told many people many times the past can affect the present. Only if we could go back to our past and deal with problems and people of the past such as Douglas Quaid did. Total Recall has all of us wishing for a real fantasy world.