Total Recall is great and its a fun, violent epic film that delivers everything! Its truly one of the greatest films of all time! A classic indeed!

Rating: 10/10 (22 April 2005)

Total Recall is such an excellent epic with tons of action, fantastic special effects and make up, great acting, colorful characters, and a wonderful musical score! Its one of the greatest films of all time! The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell, Mel Johnson Jr., Michael Champion, Roy Brocksmith, Ray Baker, Rosemary Dunsmore, David Knell, Alexia Robinson, Dean Norris, Priscilla Allen, Gloria Dorson, Michael LaGuardia, Marc Alaimo, Robert Costanzo, and Robert Picardo! Arnold is just as great as he usually is! Rachel is very good and this just might be her best role! Stone is really incredible in this picture. She really knows how to fight! Ronny Cox is his usual villain self here but he's really got an attitude in this one! Ironside is awesome in the film as well. He really is a bad guy here and I love the looks he gets on his face and another thing I love is the chemistry between him and Stone! What makes their relationship so good is the music that Jerry Goldsmith wrote for their scenes is great! Costanzo has a very good performance! Bell, Baker, Brocksmith, and everybody else all have very good performances! The action is one of the key factors that make this film so great! The violence is incredible and its one of the most violent films I have seen. The shoot outs are outstanding. I love the classic 'many bad guys getting shot several times' where one guys kills a dozen baddies! They don't make films like this anymore! The special effect are just fabulous and arguably better then today's effects! Jerry Goldsmith's score for this is perfect! I think its one of the best ever written. Its one of My favorites. Not that many people give the great composer credit for it. He should have won an Oscar Award for it easily in My opinion! I love the score and if you do I recommend you go to Amazon.com and purchase Total Recall: The Deluxe Edition because it has all of the score that Goldsmith wrote for the film! Its really an incredible masterpiece! Paul Verhoeven directed this film greatly! Head over to Amazon.com and get the special edition of Total Recall on DVD! It has superb quality and a ton special features including a brief interview with Jerry Goldsmith! The DVD is just so cool! If you love Arnold, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell, Robert Costanzo, Robert Picardo, Action, Science Fiction, Thriller, Adventure, one of the greatest musical scores, and exciting violence then I strongly recommend that you get the film today!
Movie Nuttball's NOTE:
Here are some other Arnold recommendations: Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, Red Sonja, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines, The Running Man, Red Heat, Commando, Predator, Kindergarten Cop, Last Action Hero, True Lies, Junior, Eraser, Jingle All The Way, Batman and Robin, End of Days, and Collateral Damage!
If you like alien movies and/or the subject of aliens I also recommend the following films: The Thing from another World, The Day the Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds, Horror Express, The UFO Incident, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, John Carpenter's The Thing, Krull, Time Walker, My Science Project, Howard the Duck, John, Carpenter's Starman, John Carpenter's They Live, Mac and Me, Explorers, Invaders from Mars, Alien Seed, The Abyss, Communion, Suburban Commando, Fire in the Sky, The Arrival, Mars Attacks! Men in Black I & 2, Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, Xtro 3: Watch the Skies, Battlefield Earth: A Saga for the year 3000, Impostor, Stargate, The Puppet Masters, John Carpenter's Village of the Damned, Independence Day, Life Form, The X-Files: Fight the Future, Roswell: The Aliens Attack, The Faculty, Mission to Mars, Evolution, K-Pax, Signs, Silent Warnings, Alien Hunter, Spaceballs, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Predator & Predator 2, AVP: Alien Vs. Predator, The entire Star Wars saga (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi (Original and Special Editions!), The Phantom Menace, & Attack of the Clones), the entire Star Trek movie saga (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier, The Undiscovered Country, Generations, First Contact, Insurrection, & Nemesis) and Stephen King's IT!