Total Recall (2012)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Total recall |
| Original title | Total recall |
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| Country of production | United States , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 118 minutes |
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FSK 12 JMK 14 |
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| Director | Len Wiseman |
| script |
Kurt Wimmer Mark Bomback |
| production |
Neal H. Moritz , Toby Jaffe |
| music | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| camera | Paul Cameron |
| cut | Christian Wagner |
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Total Recall is an American feature film that was first shown in theaters in various states on August 2, 2012. The film was released in the country of production on August 3, 2012, in Germany on August 23, 2012. The science fiction film is based on the short story Recollections en gros by Philip K. Dick and is a remake of the 1990 film The total memory - Total Recall . Colin Farrell starred as Douglas Quaid . Directed by Len Wiseman .
action
In the year 2084, after a world war waged with chemical weapons , only two countries are still habitable: Great Britain as the United Federation of Britain (UFB) and Australia , which is called "the colony" and is largely ruled and discriminated against by Britain. The rest of the earth is contaminated. With "The Fall", a high-speed transporter that runs in a shaft across the interior of the earth between the UFB and the colony, numerous residents of the colony commute to Britain every day to do mostly menial work in the factories there. Both areas are overpopulated, and habitable areas are extremely precious and scarce.
The married Douglas Quaid lives a meager life as a commuting factory worker in the colony. His wife works for the security forces and has taken part in many emergency operations due to increased terrorist attacks by a resistance movement from the colony. At night he experiences dramatic dreams in which he is involved in nerve-wracking fights and car chases as a kind of secret agent with an unknown woman at his side. He tells his wife about it without mentioning the other woman.
Fascinated by the idea of being able to turn his dreams into real memories, Douglas wants to escape his dreary everyday life with a "mind trip" offered by REKALL . The company plants pleasant but false memories in their customers' brains that are indistinguishable from real memories. REKALL employee McClane makes Douglas some suggestions for false memories and Douglas decides on the exciting life of a secret agent.
Since the false memories must not overlap with possibly real memories, Douglas is tested. The chemical transfer process starts when it turns out that he was indeed a spy, but he cannot remember it. At that moment, McClane and his staff were shot dead by security forces suddenly advancing. Douglas, who is about to be arrested, instinctively kills the security forces and escapes. He doesn't understand where his unexpected hand-to-hand combat skills come from.
He returns home to his wife Lori and tells her about the incident. She tries to convince him that his memory of the incident is an artificial memory created by REKALL and pretends to want to comfort him. When she hugs him, however, she tries to strangle him. In the following fight, Lori is defeated. Douglas forces her to reveal that she is not his wife but an undercover agent from Britain and that she has been following him for six weeks. The memories of the past seven years of marriage with her were artificially implanted in Douglas. Douglas was not a simple worker but a major agent of the resistance movement and was captured. In the process, his memory was largely erased and a new identity suggested .
Douglas flees. Hammond uses a cell phone implanted under the skin in his hand, introducing himself as his former colleague from the resistance. On Hammond's advice, Douglas cuts the phone out of his hand to avoid police tracking, and he follows Hammond's tip to look for something important in a locker. It is cash, passports and a recorded message from his former self that leads him to a luxurious apartment in Britain. On the way there, Douglas meets Melina, a woman from his dreams, but who are in truth real memories. Melina is injured in a car chase but soon recovers.
In the apartment, Douglas gets another message by playing on a grand piano , which is electronically stored in a key on the grand piano. His former self tells him that he used to be Carl Hauser, a highly qualified agent who worked for the unscrupulous British Chancellor Vilos Cohaagen, but switched sides during a mission in the colony out of love for Melina, was captured by Britain's security forces and a new identity was suggested. Melina and Hauser had been separated in a car chase. He also learns that Cohaagen and his police robot army want to attack the colony and kill its inhabitants in order to make room for the inhabitants of overpopulated Britain. The Chancellor himself carried out terrorist attacks in order to be able to blame the resistance groups from the colony and thus to justify the arming of his troops and ultimately the invasion. However, Hauser is said to have seen a code that could stop Cohaagen's robotic troops. The code is still in Douglas' head and can be retrieved with the help of the rebel leader Matthias.
When Douglas and Melina are found in the apartment by security guards, a former work colleague tries to convince Douglas that he is still in an artificial reality suggested by REKALL and is lying there in a chair. Killing Melina is the only way to get out of it. Douglas is almost convinced until he sees a tear in Melina's eye; this is crucial for him to assess the situation as real and to kill the work colleague. Lori was watching the situation. While she initially allows herself to be comforted as a pretended wife, after the death of her colleague she takes up a gun and continues to pursue Douglas.
Douglas and Melina travel to the Resistance Headquarters in a chemical weapon-contaminated area, and Matthias tries to get the code in Douglas' memory. It turns out, however, that the attempt to access Douglas' memory was just a ploy by Britain's agents to locate the resistance headquarters. Cohaagen and his troops approach, kill Matthias and take Douglas and Melina prisoner. Cohaagen plans to reprogram Douglas' memories again and make him back to the old, loyal agent Hauser. When this procedure is about to begin, Douglas is able to escape with the help of Hammond, who is however killed in the liberation. Douglas sets time fuse bombs in the transporter of "The Fall" into which the UFB troops are loaded. He saves Melina, and there is a dramatic final battle between the two of them with Cohaagen and his troops at the starting point of the shaft in the colony, in which Cohaagen perishes and the shaft is destroyed so that the invasion is prevented.
Douglas is injured and wakes up in an ambulance. He is greeted by Melina, but notices that her hand is missing the scar from a previous gunshot wound. He realizes that he really has Lori in front of him and kills her. The real Melina appears and the two are reunited. The colony's troops have the country under control, Australia is free and news channels report in a pathetic tone that a new chapter in world history is now beginning. In the last shot, Hauser looks at the REKALL commercial on an advertising wall and kisses Melina. In the Extended Version he looks at the crook of his arm at the end and realizes that the tattoo that REKALL applied at the beginning of his implantation is missing. It therefore remains unclear whether Douglas only experienced an artificial memory as an agent, or whether everything really happened.
production
The film had a budget of $ 125 million (final cost 138 million) and is being marketed by Columbia Pictures . The film was shot from May 16, 2011 to September 20, 2011 in Toronto and Guelph .
Reviews
The film received rather negative reviews, scoring only 30% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 209 reviews. The critical consensus read: "While it offers some impressive action sequences, Total Recall lacks the intricate plot, ironic humor and elaborate characters that made the original a sci-fi classic." Metacritic found a Metascore of 43 out of 100.
The lexicon of international films judged: “The science fiction film based on a story by Philip K. Dick replaces Verhoeven's 'trashy' aesthetic and evil humor with a gloomy, futuristic look in the style of genre classics such as 'Blade Runner'. In view of the non-stop action marathon (in the theatrical version), which is reminiscent of the level dramaturgy of computer games, the psychological thriller component of the material cannot unfold enough. "
Roger Ebert described the film as "well-crafted, high energy sci-fi". However, he was not as emotionally touched by the film as by the original; Ultimately, the remake is superfluous.
Andreas Borcholte describes the film as so “mindless that you even long for Schwarzenegger to play a role in the original.” Farrell and the other actors appear “one-dimensional”.
Gross profit
The film grossed around $ 25.5 million on its opening weekend in the United States. As of November 2012, the film grossed around 196 million US dollars worldwide.
Remarks
Kate Beckinsale and Bill Nighy have already been in front of the camera for Underworld , Underworld: Evolution and Underworld - Rise of the Lycans . Kate Beckinsale and director Len Wiseman met at Underworld, left their respective partners and got married.
The three-breasted prostitute pays homage to the original film adaptation, where she meets Hauser as a mutant on Mars.
The piece that Douglas Quaid plays on the grand piano is the beginning of the third movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonata No. 17 (Der Sturm) .
The scene in which Douglas Quaid travels to Britain in electronic disguise and is revealed in the scanner also contains a small homage to the original film Total Recall from 1990. The woman in the yellow jacket who enters before Douglas watches this Confusingly similar to the arrival on Mars, also disguised as a woman, Quaid of the other film. As in the original, she answered the question about her planned stay with "two weeks". Furthermore, Arnold Schwarzenegger can be seen on a poster for a few moments during the shooting .
Awards
At the 2013 Golden Raspberry Awards , Jessica Biel was nominated in the category “Worst Supporting Actress”.
Web links
- Official website
- Total Recall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Total Recall at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Total Recall at Metacritic (English)
- Total recall in the online film database
- Total recall in the German dubbing file
- Comparison of the theatrical version and the Extended Director's Cut from Total Recall at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Total Recall . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2012 (PDF; test number: 134 131 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Total Recall . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ cf. hollywoodreporter.com
- ↑ cf. omdc.on.ca
- ↑ cf. hollywoodreporter.com
- ↑ Total Recall at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ Total Recall at Metacritic (English)
- ↑ Total Recall. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 9, 2019 .
- ^ Roger Ebert: Total Recall Movie Review & Film Summary (2012). August 1, 2012, accessed on September 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Oh, forget it! Spiegel Online , August 21, 2012, accessed August 21, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Box Office Mojo , accessed November 23, 2012.
- ↑ Norman Heinz: Total Recall: Clip with homage to the original. July 26, 2012, accessed June 9, 2019 .