They stole his mind. Now he wants it back.

Rating: 7/10 (26 March 2012)

The film won a Special Achievement Academy Award for its visual effects. In 2084, a construction worker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has a dream and remembers he had a previous existence as a secret agent on Mars.
Total Recall is an over-excitable, science-fiction fantasy film that introduces bone-crunching violence when it stumbles over its overlapping ideas. The plot takes dizzying turns at regular intervals, as it tries to keep up with Philip K. Dick's overstuffed original story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. But the film can be watched as an effects-driven spectacle, its themes reduced to background incidental mood music. Under such circumstances, if you've half a mind to watch, that's all you'll need.