Great Film overall

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The whole film takes you in the journey of the life of a simple man that finds his life has been a lie. During the whole film, you are presented with the question: is everything that is happening real, or an illusion? It kept me on the edge of my seat until the end of the film.I have to say I did expect another ending to the film.I give it a 7/10 because the characters are not very relatable with myself, so I can't connect like I usually do in my 7+ movies.Recommended!

In a post-apocalyptic world where civilization is divided in two and linked by a huge elevator which crosses the Earth's center, an ordinary factory worker, living an ordinary life, begins to doubt his own identity after visiting a company which promises to inject memories into one's brain. He soon discovers that he has an impressive history as a spy and some amazing combat skills which he'll have to use in order to help whichever side he decides to join.It's an impressive remake of "Total Recall" from 1990 which featured Arnold Schwarzenegger as main character. I'm delighted to see a classic movie (at least for me) remade using today's technology and actors especially when the results are as good as this film. The actors were surprisingly enjoyable, especially the female antagonist who seems to put quite an effort in her acting and it shows. The whole mind bending plot is on par with the above mentioned, making your confused mind wonder over and over again about which is the truth. My expectations were beaten so I have to admit once again that I was wrong for judging a book by its cover, this movie proving to be one hell of a ride!

After skimming a number of reviews I was surprised to found quite a few complained that this action movie had too much action! People, this is not ossello, it's meant for you to sit in the audience, eat popcorn, have a little Pepsi and enjoy yourself. It is not the original movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. To make the comparisons are fruitless and futile. I found the movie was made with great imagination, skill, spectacular stunts and giving me the impression I wouldn't want Kate Beckinsale chasing me. This was a very very good movie, I might even say it was a great movie. I seen it three times now, that doesn't happen much. It has excellent CGI. You cannot tell the robots are not real. There were a few plot pitfalls but hey, it's just a movie. It is definitely not worth the ratings that the haters be hating it with. I absolutely loved the fight sequences, all of them. As mentioned above, Kate Beckinsale is amazing in this movie. The most beautiful psychopath I have ever seen. If I were ever going to be murdered buy a beautiful sociopath I wanted to be her. My recommendation are forget about all the negative reviews, personally I have no understanding of what these people were expecting but I found the movie pretty good. Not comparable to the original, but on its own it's a great flick! You have my word on it.

Before i start this review i must say i never knew about the 1990 original before watching this version & i do not wish to watch the original as I personally struggle to watch old films due to resolution... So this review is based on me only watching the modern 2012 version :) I found this movie by rummaging around in Poundland's Blu-Ray section, saw the front cover with some guy in a like a head-set type thing, thought it could be to do with the future / Sci-Fi, read the back bio & boom, here i am reviewing a awesome £1 Blu-Ray movie. Okay so I'm a sucker for anything Sci-Fi / Future type movies, the CGI in this movie is top notch, its looks clean, smart & real. When starting to watch the movie & realise it was almost 2 hours long (Extended Cut) i almost knew it would be good! The film is set in the future where chemical warfare has left most of the world uninhabitable & only 2 "areas" are safe, one in Britain & the other in Australia, the only way to get to either is through a train like thing straight through the middle of the earth. The film starts off with good decent action so it doesn't bore you with loads of story before hand, speaking of the story & plot it was very easy to understand & follow which was easy on the mind while watching. Through a lot of the film there is quite a bit of action which the scenes are decent & well played & acted. I grew to like the main good side characters & hate the bad side, the actors where good, they all suited their role & clothing was well thought out to, not to mention the awesome future / Sci-Fi robots police that looked awesome. Bad points; I'm not sure of any of the top of my head, I didn't have any complaints about the story, or what happened then or where etc. I felt like i was informed of everything that i needed to know. You may all be reading this thinking am i mad, this movie is rubbish, nope i loved it. Overall I understood what was going on, it didn't feel like 2 hours & i wanted more, great acting, awesome future / Sci-Fi setting! 9 / 10