And we're living in layers, stacked up from the surface, where futuristic Mini Coopers and Fiats remain, to way up in the sky, where hover-cars and rotor-less helicopters roam.Īnd keeping the peace - "Synthetic Federal Police," who take their fashion cues from the armored Storm Troopers of "Star Wars." Humanity has barely survived a chemical world war and we're living in two enclaves - Euromerica and New Shanghai.
And it turns out, those dreams are his real past - an agent mixed up with a rebellion, a sexy rebel agent (Biel) working for the rebel leader (Bill Nighy) or perhaps for the fearless leader, played by with generic villainy by Bryan Cranston of TV's "Breaking Bad."
We never are made to doubt Doug's reality, any more than he does.ĭoug has been waking up with Lori (Beckinsale), but dreaming of Melina (Jessica Biel). It's a measure of this movie's mediocrity that the many credited screenwriters and the director cannot make more of that possibility. "What is life but our brain's perception of it?"Įxactly.
"Tell us your fantasy, we'll give you the memory," a Rekall guru (John Cho) purrs. And the folks at Rekall are all about tinkering with your memory, your reality. "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" was the title of the story this is based on. Memories can be invented, introduced, changed, bought and sold. Here, she's the villain, the adoring wife Doug Quaid (Colin Farrell) thinks he's been waking up to these past seven years. Wiseman doesn't have Verhoeven's (limited) inventiveness, his kinky and wicked wit.īut he does have Beckinsale, whose years of vampire pictures have taught her how to lean into the camera, how to keep her mop of hair tossed over one scowling eye, just the right level of sneer to slip into her open-mouthed hypersexual pout. His not-entirely-forgettable "Recall" is remembered for images, jokes and jolts in between the effects. Verhoeven ("Basic Instinct") brought a demented, visceral and sexual energy to a high-minded sci-fi "B" movie saddled with the Teutonic bore, Arnie Schwarzenegger, as his star. And for all the effects, the action and the showcase performance provided for his wife, Kate Beckinsale, "Underworld" Spandex salesman Len Wiseman never lets us forget that he's no Paul Verhoeven, who directed the original film. The almost nonstop chase of the new "Total Recall" isn't enough, by itself, to make one forget the earlier take on this Philip K.
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