Total Recall

1990
US
1h 53min
15

Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside
UK release: 27 July 1990

In Verhoeven's hugely expensive rollercoaster of violence, Arnie plays a construction worker whose vacational fantasy (implanted by Rekall Incorporated) is to pitch him into a netherworld of assassins and femmes fatales before unleashing the full truth about his nightmares of life on Mars. The crazy Dutchman's Martian chronicle, teeming with sicko incident, is powered along by bursts of gee-ain't-this-fun-brutality, but scores points for the playful ingenuity of the plotting, and Arnie looks like he's enjoying himself.