A breath of fresh air

Rating: 7/10 (11 October 2009)

***SPOILERS*** It's 2084 and things couldn't be better for mild mannered construction worker Doug Quaid, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Doug's got a good job beautiful wife Lorie, Sharon Stone, and bright future in the construction business. Still something keeps bugging Doug to the point where it interferes with his both personal and public life: Mars! There's a major uprising that recently broke out on the Red Planet between it's earth settlers and the earth regime installed there! This seems to be driving Doug to the point of insanity. What is it about Mars that has Doug, who's never been there, so upset!
It' when Doug out of sheer desperation goes to Total Rekall Ink. to get his brain programed for a two week mental trip to Mars that the truth, about his Mars fixation, suddenly and shockingly comes to the surface! Doug actually was on Mars before as someone named Hauser! Hauser in fact was one of the major rebel leaders responsible for the revolt happening there now! And ever more important he was one of the few people who knows where to contact the man in charge of the Mars revolt the mysterious and never been seen in public Kauto! The person who the top administrator of Earth's Mars Federation Vilos Cohaagen, Ronnie Cox, wants dead more then anyone else in the rebel movement!
Non stop action as Arnold, as Doug Quaid/Hauser, takes on Cohaagen's gestapo-like thugs in saving the people, transplanted earthlings, of Mars from being suffocated to death by him. Doug also finds out that he's been manipulated by Cohaagen since he, after having his memory erased, arrived on earth some eight years ago! It's with his lost memory now fully restored Doug together with the mysterious Kauto has become a major if not fatal threat to the ruthless Cohaagen regime! A threat that has to be eliminated by all means possible!
***SPOILERS*** There's so many twists and surprises in the movie that you have trouble keeping up with its storyline. Like a rat in a maze Doug slowly gets to the bottom of what's behind the secret plans that Cohaagen has in store for him and the people on Mars. With oxygen being the most important and life saving commodity Cohaagen has kept what little supply there is of it on Mars to an absolute minimum in order to control the people living there. Doug with the help of his earth transplanted Martian girlfriend Melina, Rachel Ticotin, finds the secret cave where aliens have left the machinery to pump the planet up with enough oxygen to create its own atmosphere. What Dough & Melina need to do now is activate that machinery before Cohaagen's men deactivates or terminates them first!