Total Recall [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of Total Recall [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Bad Transfer
Summary: 3 Stars
I purchased this excellent movie on Blu-Ray due to the low cost. It honestly is no better quality than my regular DVD version, so I was disappointed.
The movie still holds up today, I just wish they truly upgraded it to HD. Oh well, still good for $10.
Movie Review: Limited extras
Summary: 3 Stars
The review by Wyatt must be for some version of this film other than the blu ray edition. The only extra on the blu ray edition is Visions of Mars.Movie Review: Works in Europe
Summary: 3 Stars
Blue Ray Quality decent, can be compared to an upscaled DVD.
Film itself is a classic!
Movie Review: So whatever your name is, get ready for a big surprise: YOU are not YOU, You are ME.
Summary: 2 Stars
Total Recall is certainly imaginative. I've seen it twice now, and I STILL don't understand it. I think you could watch this film a few times, and still have questions that you needed answered. But it plays with your mind, and leaves you racking your brains, wondering if what you just saw actually happened.
In my opinion, this is not Arnie's best movie. Maybe it's the character I'm not sure. And normally I love Arnie in movies. Just didn't get this one. Mind you, I don't often understand films that are based on Philip K Dick stories - does anybody? This is based on 'We'll Remember It For You Wholesale'.
Arnie plays Doug Quaid, a construction worker, who's bored with his uneventful life, but not with his nymphomaniac wife (Sharon Stone). For some reason, he's fascinated by Mars, to the extent of dreaming about it. Dreaming that he's there, with another woman. There's a way he can get a 'vacation' implanted into his memory, and with a bunch of extras - like being a secret agent for example.
Once unconscious, Quaid wakes up in a rage, claiming he's no Quaid, but a man called Hauser. (Anne of Green Gables fans, watch out in these scenes, for a character called Doctor Lull, who was played by Rosemary Dunsmore, who played Katherine Brooke in the Anne Of Green Gables sequel.) But the technicians haven't even begun to implant the vacation yet. Blacking out again, and waking up some time later, he's confused. His once loving wife is out to kill him, as well as his colleagues, and he has some unfinished business on Mars. Despite the fact he's never been there you understand.
It's from here that the film skews into a totally different plot and left me completed puzzled. A later scene involves Doctor Edgemar coming into the so called vacation to tell Quaid/Hauser that he's had a schizoid embolism back in the chair when he was getting the implant. This is quite possibly the point where I definitely started to lose the thread of the film - as well as being confused about whether Quaid was Hauser, or Hauser was Quaid, something happens in this scene (I won't give it away) which completely confused me.
In a way, it's good because it leaves the viewer to decide what actually happens. The viewer can decide whether or not the film is a dream, or a reality, whether Quaid gets lobotomised or not, whether Quaid is Quaid or Hauser etc. But for simple minds like mine, it's left totally bamboozled.
Whereas I did enjoy what I could understand of the movie, the reason I'm giving it a low rating, is because it's simply not my favourite Arnie movie.
The movie transfers well onto blu ray, and some additional scenes (more footage of Mars for example) would have looked amazing in high definition.
Movie Review: Enjoyable 90's action flick-a poor looking transfer for Blu-ray--pick up the UK import
Summary: 2 Stars
A clever Arnie science fiction thriller "Total Recall" maintains the over-the-top vibe of Paul Verhoven's ("Robocop", "Basic Instinct", "Starship Troopers", "Showgirls")other American films; the films feature an absurd almost pornographic level of violence, tongue-in-cheek humor and a clever plot twist. So I'm saddened to report that this is one of the worst Blu-ray transfers I've ever seen; Lion's Gate's version looks like it was upscaled from a standard DVD or pulled from the same regular definition source. The film looks soft with fine detail often lost in the murky looking Blu-ray disc.
The story for the five people who haven't seen it is based on Phil Dick's (Dick wrote the novels that were adapted into the films "Blade Runner", "A Scanner Darkly" and has had numerous stories turned into films)story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", features Arnie as construction worker Doug Quaid who feels like something is missing in his life. Against his wife's (Sharon Stone) advice Quaid goes to REKALL a company that specalizes in memory implant vacations. Quaid elects the Martian vacation package where he'll be an undercover operative helping to liberate the Mars colony. There's one hitch--it turns out that Quaid MAY very well be the character he was going to pretend to be on vacation and that REKALL's attempt to implant the memory uncovers a suppressed one.
Suddenly, Quaid is on the run and discovers that everyone from his co-workers to his wife are not who they seem to be. He discovers a brief case with a video of himself revealing his true identity. Quaid realizes to find out the truth he will have to go to Mars for real.
Ronny Cox gives a deliciously over-the-top performance as the bad guy here that rivals his slimy, evil performance in "Robocop". Sharon Stone isn't hard on the eyes here and Arnie gives a solid performance as Quaid (although I can imagine a VERY different film if the original star attached at one point--Richard Drefyus--had been cast and someone a bit more subtle had directed). "Total Recall" is a fun, loud, violent flick typical of what you'd expect from Arnie and from the 1990's but this version, well, it looks pretty awful.
I'd recommend skipping this edition which even for $9 (amazon's price when I wrote this review) isn't worth it. It's ugly looking. Wait until Lion's Gate elects to upgrade this with a better looking transfer from a better source or go for the UK edition which looks better than this pathetic excuse for a Blu-ray. Skip it.