Wonderful character development!

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Total Recall (Remake) Review 2/5How did they manage to mess up a remake of Total Recall? They have all the state of the art special effects and everything else yet they managed to make a boring pile of generic rubbish. It's full of watered down wonky edited fight scenes, dull characters and a half baked plot. The first film was very entertaining with exciting action scenes, twists and an interesting setting. The only draw back is it looked dated even back then. With the remake they had the chance to make it look incredible.They changed it drastically. Not to say change is bad but they changed it for the worse. The film was set on Earth instead of Mars and the henchmen were replaced with robotic androids. All in all its just a boring chase thriller with no excitement and zero character development. The music score by Marco Beltrami is not even memorable (It doesn't come close to Jerry Goldsmiths score) It references a lot the stuff from the original film but it just comes across as a desperate attempt to draw the fans in. Colin Farrell just looks bored throughout, Bryan Cranston is bland as the villain and Kate Beckinsale is just annoying as his ex-wife. The original film was an ultraviolet gore fest but this is just a 12A watered down bore fest. Although the cinematography looks good it just looks like a rip off of superior films like Blade Runner and Minority Report.

The original was good (despite Arnie's wooden acting) being original and it did have a coherent story. Total ReKall is yet another remake by the chimp script writer committee. Yes they added a 'K' in total 'rekall' . How I bet everyone slapped themselves on the back for that original and ground breaking idea. Other than that it's like they drew up a list of all the best parts of the original film/story and then discarded them or so diluted them as to be meaningless. The shame is Farrell and Beckinsale worked really well in the roles, shame they didn't have a script to match their talents. Yet another 2nd class remake (in an ever growing long list of trash remakes) where CGI and action scenes (very similar to the action scenes we have seen in so many films )Another lack lustre nondescript remake that failed to live up to expectations or even comparison with the original

After skimming a number of reviews I was surprised to found quite a few complained that this action movie had too much action! People, this is not ossello, it's meant for you to sit in the audience, eat popcorn, have a little Pepsi and enjoy yourself. It is not the original movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. To make the comparisons are fruitless and futile. I found the movie was made with great imagination, skill, spectacular stunts and giving me the impression I wouldn't want Kate Beckinsale chasing me. This was a very very good movie, I might even say it was a great movie. I seen it three times now, that doesn't happen much. It has excellent CGI. You cannot tell the robots are not real. There were a few plot pitfalls but hey, it's just a movie. It is definitely not worth the ratings that the haters be hating it with. I absolutely loved the fight sequences, all of them. As mentioned above, Kate Beckinsale is amazing in this movie. The most beautiful psychopath I have ever seen. If I were ever going to be murdered buy a beautiful sociopath I wanted to be her. My recommendation are forget about all the negative reviews, personally I have no understanding of what these people were expecting but I found the movie pretty good. Not comparable to the original, but on its own it's a great flick! You have my word on it.

This film is so boring that my mom left for soap opera while we were watching together. She haven't watched the original Paul Verhoeven's film, but I have. And I found the plot so predictable that I could even watch it with my eyes closed. That's when I learned that the mood music is absurd and the dialogues are idiotic. All the other aspects of the film are similarly inadequate, including acting, directing, and "The Fall", which endeavours to break all laws of the physics. CGI and background settings are worth a star, but you don't surprise anyone with CGI nowadays. Although I have managed to sit till the end, it wasn't really worth the effort. (Re)watching the original with Arnie is a much better idea.