How did this win awards?

Rating: 1/10 (1 April 2006)

I do NOT understand how this movie can be rated here, on IMDb, to be nearly as impressive as Edward Scissorhands, which came out in the same year? How can this happen? First of all, the effects are awful, even for the time! It was hands down the worst acting I've ever seen from Sharon Stone. In the first 5 minutes I knew everything about her character because of her shallow acting. Where's the depth? And, not to point out the obvious, but California's governor plays very much the same role he's played in every other action movie with the exception of the Terminators, and that was only a different role because he played a robot! The writing in Total Recall was SO bad that in the first 15 minutes I still found myself laughing awkwardly at their casual conversations about going to Mars and the mystery "dream girl." Everything about this movie was a standard Sci-Fi book clichÃ© and it hurt my soul to watch it... but I couldn't find my remote... and I'm a terribly lazy individual. May this movie be seen for what it is and may those who nominated it for Oscars have to answer to St. Peter, when their time comes.