Mars is in the midst of a revolutionary war between the forces of Cohaagen, a mercenary captain of industry ( Ronny Cox), and a small band of rebels. Meanwhile, the plot - dream or not - unfolds.
Before long, sure enough, Quaid seems to be on Mars, involved in some secret-spy stuff, and in the arms of his custom-ordered brunet ( Rachel Ticotin).īut is this a packaged memory, or a real experience? The movie toys tantalizingly with the possibilities, especially in a scene where a convincing doctor and Quaid's own wife ( Sharon Stone) "appear" in his dream to try to talk him down from it. What they do is, they strap you into a machine and beam the memories into your mind, so that it seems utterly convincing to you that you've been to Mars and done some dangerous spying there, and fallen in love with the brunet of your specifications (Quaid specifies she be "athletic, sleazy and demure"). He life seems idyllic, but he keeps having these dreams about Mars - dreams that finally inspire him to sign up with a strange kind of travel agency that provides you with the memory of a vacation instead of a real one. We meet him in a future world where he lives in a comfortable apartment with his loving blond wife, and goes off to work every day at a construction job. Dick, centers on an intriguing idea: What would happen if you could be supplied with memories? If your entire "past," right up until this moment, could be plugged into your brain, replacing the experiences you had really lived through? That's what seems to happen to Quaid, the Schwarzenegger character in "Total Recall," although at times neither he nor we can be quite sure. But the plot, based on a story by the great science fiction writer Phillip K. This is one of the most complex and visually interesting science fiction movies in a long time.
There is a lot of action and violence in the movie, and almost every shot seems to embody some sort of special effect. And in his vulnerability, he opens the way for "Total Recall" to be more than simply an action, violence and special effects extravaganza.
He's a confused and frightened innocent, a man betrayed by the structure of reality itself. He isn't a superman this time, although he fights like one. But the performance is one of the reasons the movie works so well. There may be people who overlook the Arnold Schwarzenegger performance in "Total Recall" - who think he isn't really acting.
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