Total Recall (2012)

Total Recall rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.2/10· 276K votes

Rotten Tomatoes30%

Metacritic43%

TMDb6.03/10· 6K votes

With 30% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.2/10 on IMDb and 43/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About Total Recall

Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.

Cast of Total Recall

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  Colin Farrell

  as Douglas Quaid / Hauser

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  Jessica Biel

  as Melina

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  Kate Beckinsale

  as Lori Quaid

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  Bill Nighy

  as Matthias

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  John Cho

  as McClane

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  Bryan Cranston

  as Cohaagen

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  Dylan Smith

  as Hammond

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  Cam Clarke

  as Terminal Announcer (voice)

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  Bokeem Woodbine

  as Harry

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  Will Yun Lee

  as Marek

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  Natalie Lisinska

  as Bohemian Nurse

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  Milton Barnes

  as Resistance Fighter

Total Recall facts

Budget

$125M

Box office

$198.8M

Our take on Total Recall

Len Wiseman's 2012 remake reworks the memory-implant premise into a sleek, hard-edged chase. Factory worker Doug Quaid pays for a virtual vacation with false memories of espionage, but when the procedure malfunctions he's suddenly hunted by police, unsure which of his memories are even real. Teaming with a rebel fighter, he races to stop the sinister Chancellor Cohaagen while the question of his own identity gnaws at everything. It's a science-fiction action thriller that trades philosophical unease for velocity and glossy future-noir design. A solid choice if you want propulsive genre spectacle and don't mind that the ideas take a back seat to the pursuit.