Similarities with RoboCop, distrust of corporations, dreams are made of this

Rating: 7/10 (30 July 2012)

IN conjunction with the release of the Total Recall remake on Aug 2, I'm running a review of the original flick.
While watching director Verhoeven's 1990 flick on DVD today, I'm reminded of his RoboCop (1987).
Both flicks share similarities, and not only in the excessive body count and gruesome violence.
The main similarity is the director's mistrust of corporations, headed by rich white fat cats, which exert enormous power on a repressed populace and bleed them dry financially.
Total Recall says corporations will go to great lengths to protect their profits and will not stop at anything, even murder, to ensure money flows into their pockets.
The movie encourages viewers to sympathize with a regular Joe (Schwarzenegger, playing a construction worker. Ha, ha) who helps the rebels rise up against the oppressive corporation.
Arnie plays a character who used to work for the corporation, but has now switched sides because he took a harder hit to his head.
Verhoeven plays tricks with viewers, constantly questioning their perception of reality.
He even inserts a scene where two people, who act as a fail-safe device, pop into Schwarzenegger's dreams to get him to snap out of it.
In the movie's reality, when do the dreams actually begin?