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22 AUGUST 9, 2012
he easy joke about Len Wiseman’s
Total Recall is that it gives you
so little to remember. You might
recall the Blade Runner-esque neon-and-
concrete vision of its future, or the look
on Kate Beckinsale’s face as she tries to
squeeze the life out of Colin Farrell’s
Douglas Quaid. But Wiseman, who cut
his teeth as a director on two Underworld
fl icks, has plenty of experience directing
Beckinsale at ass-kicking. Two hours of
her and Jessica Biel fi ghting in an inexpli-
cably complex bank of elevators would be
considerably more memorable.
Total Recall just doesn’t have anything
to say. Doug, a factory worker in a future
where living space is at a premium (yet
there are still three-story buildings), has
a lovely wife and a recurring dream about
being chased by the authorities. Trying to
shake the feeling that something is missing,
he goes to Rekall, a sort of mental opium
den where technicians slide manufactured
memories into your head. He and McClane
(John Cho) trade stoner-grade cracks about
reality versus illusion, and before you can
say Whoa, dude, deep stuff, something
in Doug’s mind trips Rekall’s oh-shit
detectors. All hell breaks colorfully loose,
and Wiseman and his cinematographer,
Paul Cameron, shoot Doug’s awakening
like a video game, veering around poles,
chasing the end of his gun.
It’s one of the fi lm’s livelier sequences,
but the subsequent absurd rooftop chase
(did we learn nothing from the Bourne
fi lms?) is a disappointment. The action
picks up again when Jessica Biel, sporting
some covetable resistance-fi ghter togs,
shows up in a fl ying car to spirit Doug
away from the cops. She calls him Hauser,
glancing longingly in his general direction;
he maintains the same slightly confused
expression. Farrell’s not a bad actor, and his
boyish face is developing some attractive
gravitas, but his character is a blank: He
doesn’t know who he is, and he’s too busy
staying alive to think about it much.
Despite the “Is it real/is it Rekall”
tagline, Total Recall doesn’t spend much
time on the question of whether Doug/
Hauser’s newfound double-agent past is
real or just happening in his head; there
are a lot of explosions to get to, and more
running and jumping to squeeze in. The
fi lm’s plot involves haves and have-nots,
government and colonists, resistance
fi ghters (Hey, look, it’s Bill Nighy for 5
minutes!) and robot soldiers, but none of
it gels; all that really matters is that Bryan
Cranston maintain a suffi cient creep factor
and the future cityscapes be appropriately
dark and curiously imagined. Total Recall
has moments of delicious escapism, but
they’re snack-sized. As a whole, it’s
neither entertaining enough nor intelligent
enough to leave you with more than a
vaguely sci-fi taste in your mouth — and
maybe a faint interest in watching the 1990
Schwarzenegger/Verhoeven Recall again. ew
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