2012 · action · sci-fi · thriller
Total Recall
Directed by Len Wiseman1h 58m2012
Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.
Our read: Total Recall (2012) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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