The performances match this shallow kiddie pool story.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 4, 2023

Done right, Total Recall should be a glorious mash-up of genres; The Truman Show-meets-Blade Runner. As it is, this is sci-fi without ideas, and a thriller completely bereft of thrills.

| Apr 18, 2023

[The film] spends so much of its time trying to duplicate aspects of the original that the filmmakers were distracted from their most clever ideas.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 3, 2022

Wiseman’s film isn’t nearly as fun or engaging as the original.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 27, 2022

While the action sequences are riveting, none of the humour or interesting plotting that made the original such a classic is present here.

| Jun 24, 2021

What's missing is a sense of fun. It feels sterile, a bit stale and antiseptic.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 23, 2021

For a world so heavily populated, it's surprisingly difficult to find engaging inhabitants.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 2, 2020

A serviceable but forgettable foray into sci-fi action.

| Original Score: C | Jul 11, 2020

It's nothing but a third-rate genre exercise.

| Sep 16, 2019

It's a non-stop action fest to the finish.

| Jan 26, 2019

Throw in a dash of Minority Report and I, Robot, and you have yourself a lukewarm sci-fi action film.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 9, 2018

An entertaining, if almost completely empty-calorie film with a Kate Beckinsale performance that should not be missed. Sometimes, that's all the brain needs for a good time.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 4, 2018

Total Recall has moments of delicious escapism, but they're snack-sized. As a whole, it's neither entertaining enough nor intelligent enough to leave you with more than a vaguely sci-fi taste in your mouth.

| Oct 12, 2018

It stands on its own as as a dystopian paranoid fantasy of the sole remaining future superpowers.

| Aug 30, 2018

Whilst the action is grand in scope - and certainly high in production values - it somehow lacks any tangible sense of tension or drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2018

While the remake might not hold a candle to the 1990 interpretation of the material, it can stand on its own as a solid action movie.

| Jul 3, 2018

Total Recall is like Bourne Identity met Blade Runner, then had an ugly tabloid breakup followed by a nervous breakdown and a tell-all book.

| May 23, 2018

... it was awful.

| Oct 17, 2017

Suffice to say, you're best off forgetting this sorry mess ever happened.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 19, 2017

There are so many opportunities to make a remake better, but this film didn't attempt none of them.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 8, 2017