TOTAL RECALL
The year is 2020 and Douglas Quaid(Arnold) is bored with his life and feels like there is more out there for him and it has to be on Mars. Quaid is unable to convince his sexy, aerobic fitness freak, wife Sharon Stone(No relation to Mike) to vacation at the hot, low oxygen touristy Red Planet. So Quaid decides to visit the recall center to have a Mars vacation ingrained in his memory. Then what happens is a Total Recall. Arnold stars in the best futuristic and most violent action film ever, only later to be mimicked and gravely disappointed by the Matrix trilogy.
Mike Stone will make this easy for you, Arnold was at an all time best condition for this wild Hummer ride. The bottom line is he needed to be perfect especially when pitted up against the president of Mars, Vilos Coohagen who was no rookie to action himself. Stone will give it up to the mutants, they definitely knew how to pick a powerful leader of their planet, when electing the former bad guy of “Robo Cop”, “Beverley Hills Cop” and the Banjo player from “Deliverance”. On earth, Saturn or Mars this ultimate battle between Coohagen’s Political Power vs Arnold’s Brawn and Acting Skills was guaranteed to be one for the ages.
Its movies like these that define leaders in our planets history. Quaid trail blazed a path for future Action Stars, a true grass roots leader that stared every ugly opposition in the face and either shot them, hit them with a foreign object, or just pummeled them with his hands. A real man like Quaid will wear fat women suits to trick his adversaries, he will swear, he will make wicked cool one-liners to women or the unlucky bad guy/scientist that just got a metal rod stuck through his neck. A man like Quaid can get stuck in a brain transplant machine, have his whole life turned upside-down and still be great with the ladies. Quaid is the only dude who hangs out in the back caves of mars to have his brain read by a half born baby hanging out of man's stomach with no air to breath. Quaid is the type of man we should all strive to be and this movie should be a daily inspiration for people to see how to fight for what is right in this universe.
Highlights: No computer enhanced images, prosthetics, or puppetry! All painful stunts, suffocations, brain explosions, unexplainable events or mutant sightings were all documented as 100% real spectacles in the filming. First time ever on location shooting in Mars. Nonstop violence, Arnold just bulldozes with his guns, people have no problem killing in the future, even close up shot of rat guts on a laptop screen. Best girl fight in an action movie between Sharon Stone and Melina woman, Mike Stone is talking crashing through windows, like 6 “bitch” references, and lots of face kicks. Naked breasts again and this time three on one girl!
Downfalls: Due to the overwhelming amount of mutants the overall strength of this cast was lacking in comparison to the other great cinematic pieces in world history. Kuato the unborn baby mutant mind reader gave Arnold inspiration for his later suicide film “Junior”.
Could this be Arnold’s best? Check back to find out, there are only two to go in the countdown.
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