Despite the negative critical reception (which truly astounds me sometimes, a lot of supposedly "good" movies are pure rubbish or doesn't seem to deserve what they got), Total Recall isn't a disaster. It presents an intriguing idea, and I thought they way that they had it fleshed out was done well. The start could be confusing when it turns out to be a dream, but once the main character Doug heads off to Rekall to get implanted memories, that's when things got interesting. The fact that Doug had his life fabricated (which explains the beginning scene) and the fact that later on in the movie, how they tried to twist the truth and convince him that what he was experiencing wasn't real, that was quite neat. The future is depicted as bleak and old, with the rusty and awkwardly built structures. The improbable escape in the climax of the film was a low point (pretty sure if they got out of the transport while it's traveling through the Earth that the gravity and pressure would kill you) and that the action scenes felt a little bit generic. There was an abundance of swearing that made it feel... artificial and for no good reason (other than to signify that they're in a death-is-likely scenario? Which we could see anyway...).
