

In both, there are passages in which Quaid has no idea what to believe and must decide which of various characters can be trusted. Dick story, is handled well in this version, directed by Len Wiseman, and in Paul Verhoeven's 1990 version. The ingenuity of the plot, inspired by a Philip K. In the Farrell performance, there's more of a sense that the character is being swept along with the events. The enormity of this discovery is better reflected by Schwarzenegger, who seems more wounded, more baffled, more betrayed - and therefore more desperate. In both, he discovers that everything he thinks he knows about himself is fictitious, and all of his memories have been implanted. In both, he is discontented with his life. Both films open with him happy and cluelessly married (to Sharon Stone in the first, Kate Beckinsale in this one). The story involves a man who is involved without his knowledge (or recollection) in a conflict between a totalitarian regime and a resistance movement. But Schwarzenegger is more of a movie presence and better suited for the role of a wounded bull stumbling around in the china shop of his memories. He's replaced as the hero Quaid by Colin Farrell, who in point of fact is probably the better actor. This movie has its own reason you can't go outside and breathe the air.īut Schwarzenegger, now, is another matter. Mars we can do without, I suppose, although I loved the special effects creating the human outpost there. The music was composed by Harry Gregson-williams.The two biggest differences between this new "Total Recall" and the 1990 original are that no scenes are set on Mars, and it stars Colin Farrell instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Cinematography was done by Paul Cameron and editing by Christian Wagner. The screenplay for the movie was written by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback. Total Recall was made on a budget of $125 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $198 million.

Total Recall was released on 2nd August 2012 and takes a screen time of 118 minutes. Sony Pictures Releasing acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Total Recall is written by Kurt Wimmer, Mark Bomback, Ronald Shusett, Dan O'bannon, Jon Povill and Gary Goldman and it is directed by Len Wiseman. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Toby Jaffe and Neal H. Columbia Pictures in association with Original Film and Relativity Media. The movie is inspired from We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Total Recall is a 2012 American English-language Action Adventure motion picture featuring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, John Cho, Bill Nighy and Josh James Chappell. Original futuristic cinematic entertaining A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.
