Colin Farrell stars as Douglas Quaid in this remake of a 90's classic with the same name. Set in a futuristic society where only two parts of the Earth remain. It is about a factory worker, who visits a place called Rekall which is a company who implant fake memories in a person's mind so he can believe he experienced them. While in the process of doing so, something goes wrong and Douglas must find the answer before it's too late. Nobody is who they seem.
Let me start off by saying, I have not had the "pleasure" of watching the original Total Recall so I will not be able to contrast and compare the two. So I thought that this remake was actually somewhat good. I'm not sure how true it keeps to the storyline of the original but here goes. Colin Farrell was good in it, although action films really aren't the best films to show off your acting abilities. I'm not a great fan of action and so I wouldn't rate this as highly as other people would, but I thought it was still good but for an action film it was pretty good. There was a lot of bits where people kept on missing him with the bullets and where they would aim, then something would happen and miraculously they wouldn't shoot, which is expected from these films. But it was still good.
So basically, if you're looking for a good action film, see this. However, as I said, I do not know how true it stays to the original although I know the three-boobed-woman is in it, and you see it all, in a 12A film. Anyway, I felt it was good, nothing great, but good. And it looked good too.
A solid 7/10
Let me start off by saying, I have not had the "pleasure" of watching the original Total Recall so I will not be able to contrast and compare the two. So I thought that this remake was actually somewhat good. I'm not sure how true it keeps to the storyline of the original but here goes. Colin Farrell was good in it, although action films really aren't the best films to show off your acting abilities. I'm not a great fan of action and so I wouldn't rate this as highly as other people would, but I thought it was still good but for an action film it was pretty good. There was a lot of bits where people kept on missing him with the bullets and where they would aim, then something would happen and miraculously they wouldn't shoot, which is expected from these films. But it was still good.
So basically, if you're looking for a good action film, see this. However, as I said, I do not know how true it stays to the original although I know the three-boobed-woman is in it, and you see it all, in a 12A film. Anyway, I felt it was good, nothing great, but good. And it looked good too.
A solid 7/10