Grisly, disgusting, gratuitous violence ...

Rating: 5/10 (1 September 1999)

... and bad science, too! (At least vis-a-vis Martian
planetology.) It's typical of American political hypocrisy that
when Hollywood is blasted for violent films by right-wing nut
cases that the directors who are singled out are always social
liberals, while arch-Republican Ah-nold can make movies in which
hundreds of innocent people die graphically on screen and the
right-wingers don't raise a peep. If Oliver Stone's name was
listed as director, "Total Recall" would be blamed for
everything from the Columbine Incident to the killings of Ron
Goldman and what's-her-name.