Schwarzenegger on his zenith

Rating: Null/10 (17 March 2001)

Anno 1991, when I was 16 years old, I saw "Total Recall" for the first time and it was then the greatest film I had ever seen: Carolco was on the best way to become a further major studio with blockbusters like this one - long time before "Titanic", Verhoeven´s movie was the most expensive film ever produced! The score composed by Jerry Goldsmith is still one of my favorites and Dan O´Bannon had done another brilliant job as script writer. The make-up and the special FX made by Rob Bottin were stunning (remember the female Marsian with THREE breasts or Cuato, the leader of the rebells...) and Paul Verhoeven became one of the most fascinating and provocative directors in Hollywood. There was a superior Arnold Schwarzenegger, a very sexy Sharon Stone, a tough Rachel Ticotin and a charismatic Michael Ironside playing the bad guy. All these facts make "Total Recall" standing in one row with the best action movies of all times like "Die Hard 1+2", "The Rock", "T2" or "Face/Off". Watch nowadays Schwarzenegger´s youngest releases like "End of Days" or "The 6th Day": they´re just solid action flicks, but nothing more. "Total Recall" against it is a classic! (9/10)