"You were dreaming. Doug? Was it about Mars?"
It’s 2084 and bored construction worker Douglas Quaid (Arnold
Schwarzenegger) wakes from yet another dream featuring him and a mysterious
woman on Mars. Quaid is bored and dislikes his surroundings and tries to get
his wife Lori (Sharon Stone) to agree to a holiday on the red planet. She
declines. On his way to work Quaid sees an advert for Rekall, a company that
implants memories for a fee. He visits them and agrees to a two week implanted
holiday on Mars where he’ll also take on the role of a secret agent. While he
is being put to sleep but before the memories can be implanted Quaid has a
violent reaction, claiming that they have blown his cover. He escapes the
facility and after being attacked heads for Mars to uncover who’s trying to
kill him and indeed who he is.
I first saw Total
Recall about twelve years ago and certain things had stuck in my memory but
I couldn’t remember the ending. What I did discover is that my memory of the
film was much better than I now think it is.
