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Total Recall Movie Review

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger Michael Ironside
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A construction worker keeps having a recurring dream of Mars. He decides to go to a place where they implant memories, that make it seem like you have been there. However, something goes wrong. He is hunted by several people who want to kill him. He goes to Mars where he meets a woman and together they team up to solve the conspiracy.
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Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has always wanted to go to Mars, one day he gets his chance with artificially implanted memories from "recall". Unfortunately, after the botched memory implant, everything starts to go wrong for Quaid. His wife and unknown bounty hunters are trying to kill him. Quaid must go to Mars to uncover the secrets of his past, and stop himself from being killed. A great action movie, full of surprises, neat gadgets, and bloody gunfights.
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Plot

Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 50%




**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Spying - Investigations Yes
What is main char. doing? - unraveling a conspiracy
Character operated on/altered? Yes
Kind of alteration: - amnesia
If the enemy is a group... - evil organization

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - trader
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/medium wavy
Body type - muscular (man)
Unclothed? - Chest
Events of movie makes character more... - tougher - introspective
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings - hard edged
Sense of humor? - Cynical sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - Bulging muscles - Very athletic

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type - average (female)
How much in movie? - 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality - Hispanic/Latinic

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 40%
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity - White
Sense of humor? - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average Intelligence
Physical condition - average physique
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant

Setting
Which planet? - Mars
Earth setting: - near future (later in 21st century) - Polluted
A substantial portion of this movie takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - big overbuilt futuristic city - very controlled society - spacesuit needed on surface
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Planet outside our solar system? Yes
Not Earth, but in Solar System? Yes
Misc settings - bar/restaurant

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths - explicit references to deaths
Tone of movie - upbeat
Comedy or somewhat funny movie? Yes
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing - seeing breasts - sex under blankets
Any profanity? - Some foul language - A lot of foul language
Kinds of F/X - Things that change shape/morph - exploding vehicles - exotic spaceships - nasty human transformations - exotic big cities - exotic alien landscape
Is this movie based on a - book
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