Genre:
Science-Fiction
Directed by:
Len Wiseman
Starring:
Colin Farrell
Release date:
Fri 03, Aug 2012
Budget $125 million
Box office $166,027,693
Total Recall is a 2012 American science fiction action film remake of the 1990 film of the same name, in turn loosely based on the 1966 short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick. Unlike the original film and short story, the plot does not include a trip to Mars and exhibits more political overtones. The film blends Western and Eastern influences, most notably in the settings and dominant populations of the two nation states in the story: the United Federation of Britain, and the Colony.
Total Recall was directed by Len Wiseman, written by Mark Bomback, James Vanderbilt, and Kurt Wimmer, and stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, John Cho, and Bill Nighy. It was first announced in 2009 and was released in the North America on August 3, 2012.
Plot
At the end of 21st Century, the Earth is divided into two
territories — the United Federation of Britain (UFB) and the Colony (Australia)
— after chemical warfare devastates the remainder of the planet. Many residents
of the Colony travel to the UFB to work in their factories via "the
Fall", a gravity elevator, which travels through the Earth. Habitable
space is at a minimum in both the UFB and the Colony. A Resistance that
operates in the UFB seeks to improve life in the Colony.
A factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell) decides
to visit Rekall, a company that implants artificial memories. Rekall employee
McClane (John Cho) convinces Quaid to be implanted with memories of a secret
agent. Quaid is tested to avoid having implanted memories conflicting with real
memories, and McClane discovers that Quaid has real memories of being a spy.
McClane and his co-workers are suddenly gunned down by a SWAT team. Quaid
instinctively reacts and kills the officers before escaping. Quaid returns home
to his wife Lori (Kate Beckinsale), but Lori attempts to kill Quaid, revealing
that she is not his wife of seven years, but an undercover UFB agent who has
been monitoring him for the past six weeks. Quaid manages to escape, and
Hammond (Dylan Scott Smith), a man claiming to be a former associate, contacts
Quaid via a cell phone embedded in Quaid's hand, disclosing the location of a
nearby safe-deposit box. Quaid cuts the cell phone out of his hand to avoid
being traced. In the safe-deposit box, Quaid discovers a recorded message from
his former self, leading him to an apartment in UFB.
On the way, Quaid meets Melina (Jessica Biel), the woman
from his dreams. At the apartment, Quaid plays a piano to trigger a second
recorded message which reveals that Quaid was formerly Carl Hauser, a highly
skilled agent working for UFB Chancellor Vilos Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston). After
defecting to the Resistance movement, Hauser was captured by the UFB and
implanted with false memories. The recording reveals a plot by Cohaagen to use
the synthetic police force to invade the Colony to provide more living space
for UFB, but that Hauser had seen a code that could stop the UFB's robotic forces
which can be recovered from his memory with the aid of the Resistance's leader,
Matthias (Bill Nighy). Melina reveals that she was Hauser's lover, but the two
were separated when Hauser was captured. Tracked to the apartment by the
police, Quaid and Melina find themselves surrounded. Quaid's friend and
colleague from the Colony, Harry (Bokeem Woodbine), arrives and tries to
convince Quaid that he is in a Rekall-induced dream and that killing Melina is
the only way to wake up. Quaid is conflicted, but decides to not kill Melina
and shoots Harry instead.
Quaid/Hauser and Melina travel to meet with Mathias. While
Mathias searches the memories of Quaid/Hauser, SWAT teams led by Lori and
Cohaagen burst in. Quaid/Hauser, Melina and Mathias are captured. Cohaagen
informs Mathias that Hauser was secretly working for him without even knowing
it (owing to the alteration of his memories) and that the code was a fake to
lure Mathias out of hiding. Cohaagen guns down Mathias and orders Hauser's mind
be restored as he leaves with Lori and Melina (as a prisoner) for the Fall to
launch his invasion of the Colony. Posing as a SWAT team member, the mysterious
Hammond helps Quaid escape, but Hammond is killed in the process.
Quaid arrives at the Fall and manages to sneak aboard. He
installs timed explosives within the Fall as he searches for Melina. After
finding and freeing her, Quaid and Melina manage to exit the Fall as it arrives
at the Colony. As Quaid and Melina fight with the soldiers and Cohaagen himself
atop the Fall, Quaid's explosives detonate, and Quaid and Melina escape the
Fall as it plummets beneath the surface with Cohaagen and his army still on
board.
Waking up in an ambulance, Quaid is greeted by Melina.
However, he notices the absence of a scar on her hand and realizes it is Lori
in disguise. They fight, and Quaid kills Lori. Quaid and Melina are reunited
and embrace while an advertisement for Rekall plays in the background.
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References.
External links:
"Main Page." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Sept. 2012. Web. 13 Sept. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>.
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