After about two hours of pummeling, I felt as if I was beat up."Total Recall," filmed in dark tones of brown, olive and blue, has amazing images of The United Federation of Britain and The Colony (Australia), linked by a supersonic, subsurface transporter called "The Fall" that cuts to the core literally of the Earth. After he escapes, he meets up with Melina (Jennifer Beal). Or is he?Soon, Lori is beating the tar out of Hauser. Or has it?He's married to Lori Quaid (Kate Beckinsale). Dick's "We Remember It For You Wholesale."Colin Farrell is factory worker Douglas Quaid-Hauser, whose memory has been erased by Rekall.
If I sound like a broken record it's because I am mirroring the images and impressions of "Total Recall," a reimagining, or reboot in simple words, a remake of the 1990 movie that starred Arnold Schwarznegger, based on author Philip K. It's an impressive balancing act - especially when you consider that Recall is also the model of a beefcake action movie, complete with exploding squibs that make every direct-hit gunshot look like a body explosion.What I recall after seeing "Total Recall" are weapons, shooting, leaping, hand-to-hand combat, violence, explosions, flying cars, chases, and more weapons, shooting, leaping, hand-to-hand combat, violence, explosions, flying cars, chases and more weapons. But it also graft's Dick's sensibility onto an old fashioned pulp adventure that feels like something out of Edgar Rice Burroughs, complete with mysterious alien technology and glorious visions of the Martian planetscape. Recall does a surprisingly good job of translating Dick's skeptical, gonzo form of science-fiction - the annoying Johnny Cab robot, invented for the movie, feels right in line with Dick's vision of a future that's just as insipid as the present. The original story is both slighter and more twisted than the plot of Recall - like a lot of Dick's stories, it dovetails on a couple of interesting notions, wrapped up with an ending that borders on the non sequitur. Total Recall is based on ''We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,'' a short story by the great Philip K. Dick's eccentric sci-fi vision with an old-fashioned pulp adventure.
One year later, Terminator 2 kick-started a revolution in digital effects, making Total Recall one of the last great monuments to practical effects.īecause the film combines Philip K. Total Recall won an Academy Award for its special effects. And Bottin's singular vision of the mutated Martian underclass is like a grown-up vision of the Mos Eisley Cantina - appropriate, since Bottin actually did some work in that famous Star Wars sequence.
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Given free rein by Verhoeven, Bottin invented most of Recall's most memorable visions, including Quaid's exploding fat-lady disguise and the disgusting - yet curiously endearing! - stomach-mutant Kuato. But Bottin was responsible for some of the most mesmerizing sci-fi visions of the pre-CGI era, including the deliriously goopy nightmare monster in The Thing, Tim Curry's demon in Legend, and the catalog of serial-killing horrors in Se7en.īut Total Recall is Bottin's showcase. You've never heard of Rob Bottin before? That's not surprising: The visual effects/makeup design wünderkind has more or less disappeared from the film industry. Because Rob Bottin's special effects put the digital era to shame.
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