Total Recall - review

Colin Farrell steps into the Governor's shoes
Still of Jessica Biel and Colin Farrell in Total Recall (2012) © Columbia Pictures
6 July 2012

Reissued before the new version is upon us, Paul Verhoeven’s swingeing piece of Hollywood science fiction, made in 1990, proved once and for all that Robocop was no fluke.

Adapted from Philip K Dick’s short story, it has Arnold Schwarzenegger as an ordinary Joe with an implanted memory and an overweening desire to get at the dictator controlling Mars.

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