Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Total Recall

Colin Farrell stars as Douglas Quaid a blue collar factory worker who is starting to have troubling dreams, dreams where he and a mysterious beauty (Jessica Biel) are running from a bunch of bad guys wearing what looks like cheap Storm Trooper costumes. Quaid always wakes up before he finds out how the dream ends, but the image of what happens, and the weird feeling that it actually happened in real life, haunts him through his waking hours. To get a better grip on his slipping reality, Quaid goes to Rekal, a shady corporation that implants memories directly into your brain to make you think you did things you really haven’t, to see if he can get into his dreams and finish them. Something goes wrong during the process, however, and Quaid starts to act more like the man in his head than the man he thought he was. Confused? Don’t be. Director Len Wiseman does a pretty good job of explaining what is going on along the way, giving audiences just enough info to keep them interested without giving away too many secrets.


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