![]() ![]() ![]() Verhoeven tops his own work from RoboCop in this regard, and the film remains one of the best action-sci-fi productions to come out of Hollywood. The action and adventurism of Total Recall are relentless, brutal, and marvelously staged. But the popularity of twist endings, particularly the specific sort in Total Recall, hadn’t taken off yet. ![]() To be sure, there were film twists before Total Recall - films like No Way Out (an oft-forgotten but excellent thriller with a delicious twist), Dressed to Kill, The Empire Strikes Back, Sleepaway Camp, and the classic Psycho all featured big plot twists that surprised viewers. If thin-skinned, self-entitled, crazy billionaires obsessed with space exploration and willing to sacrifice the needs of humanity in favor of the power-hungry desires of a wealthy elite all sounds familiar nowadays, as I said, the film was ahead of its time.Īdditionally, Total Recall was one of the first big “twist” movies, with not one but three major plot twists, including a final one that’s often bizarrely overlooked or debated despite repeated clues and the sheer logicalness of the conclusion. Space exploration and colonization in Total Recall are dominated by corporate interests and “geniuses” whose contempt for ordinary people leads to violent abuses of power, dangerous risk-taking, and persecution of anyone who stands in the way of profits. ![]()
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