Future perfect

Rating: 9/10 (9 April 2014)

IMDb is full of people dishing out ratings with no care or attention. But if ever a film tempted me to give it full marks, it's total recall.
As with all Paul Verhoven's sci-fi films, total recall still looks futuristic, and always will.
The music is pitch perfect, the casting immaculate, the settings, the dialogue. And Arnie fits into this role more sweetly than any other, even that other one he does, where he's a robot.
A great story full of ultra violence, twists, multi mammaric women, mutants and more. My Nan would often say 'they'd tax the air you breathe if they could' and Cohaagen made that dream true. He must be the envy of every politician.
Quotable sound bites, indelible images, and the most fictionally realised vision of Mars imaginable.
Nothing in the film is beyond the realm of possibility, an amazing achievement for a sci fi film set largely on another planet.
I just cannot believe how much I love this film.
Only two negatives, why did it lead Paul to make showgirls? And maybe if it hadn't been so good, it wouldn't have given some twonk the idea to cash in on its reputation with a remake, which I haven't seen as I'm so offended that anyone thought a remake necessary