It’s certainly not spoiling things to state that Lori isn’t exactly who she seems, since the trailer makes her treachery plain in any case. To this end, he packed the movie with as much wry humour, insanely over-the-top violence and subtle commentary as he could get away with, and the result is a fantastic product of its time.Īs Quaid’s story begins, Lori is his pretty and devoted wife. Paul Verhoeven, among the most slyly intelligent directors then working in Hollywood, new what he was making: a trashy Arnold Schwarzenegger blockbuster. Such madness was all part of what made Total Recall so special, of course. This wall, coincidentally, covers a shortcut to the underground alien lair Doug had been looking for in the first place. The movie’s sledgehammer storytelling is summed up best in a late, brief scene in which an evil character shows up in a literal deus ex machina determined to kill hero Doug Quaid with a tunnelling machine, the bad guy does that typical Hollywood bad guy thing of telling the hero what he’s going to do before he does it (“I’m gonna grind you up man!”), before narrowly missing Doug and smashing through a wall. It’s not unfair to say that, compared to the relative subtlety of the Philip K Dick writings that inspired it, 1990’s Total Recall was about as subtle as an escaped rhinoceros running down a crowded high street.
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