A sci-fi action classic!

Rating: 10/10 (28 March 2007)

An married ordinary man named Quaid (Arnold Schwartzenger)lives in the future where he gets dreams every night of a mysterious woman (Rachel Ticoton) and wants to do something with his life better then being with his wife Lori (Sharon Stone). He sees a commercial for a special virtual dream memory program called "Rekall" where he can have a dream and memory of his ideal vacation for a good price, but unfortunately his memory has been erased and goes on a special mission to Mars to save it from a dictator (Ronny Cox) and get his memory back.
A quality action packed thrill ride that wonderfully mixes sci-fi with action, ideas, weirdness, humor and graphic gore galore. Paul Verhoeven who directed the successful "Robocop" has made another sci-fi masterpiece here, this is indeed one of Arnold's best movies and succeeds at that point! the violence in this movie is quite extreme and almost got an X rating. I remembered when i was 8 watching this movie in a theater back in the summer of 1990, the violence didn't traumatize me at all but the movie became one of the coolest and most entertaining movies i've ever seen.
It's always been a personal favorite of mine for quite some time and one of those movies that inspired me to love film. The score from Jerry Goldsmith is truly one of the best music scores i've ever heard! the film co-stars Marshall Bell ("A Nightmare on Elm Street 2") and Michael Ironside, this is a superb sci-fi thriller that is one hell of a roller-coaster ride and a must see.
Also recommended: "Commando", "Day of the Dead", "Blade Runner", "Star Wars", "The Empire Strikes Back", "Serenity", "The Fifth Element", "The Dark Crystal", "I Robot", "Videodrome", "The Thing (1982)", "From Dusk Till Dawn", "Sin City", "Dawn of the Dead (2004)", "Alien Saga", "Terminator Trilogy", "Predator", "The Running Man", "V For Vendetta", "The Matrix Saga", "Escape from New York", "Starship Troopers", "Robocop", "Minority Report", "A Scanner Darkly", "Return of the Jedi", "Revenge of the Sith", "Men in Black", "Reservoir Dogs", "Bad Boys 2", "300", "Starchaser: Legend of Orin", "Dark City", "Vanilla Sky", "Donnie Darko" and "Rambo Trilogy".