Douglas is interested in Rekall - which is depicted like an illegal opium den, rather than Verhoeven’s glossier, luxurious service - and on a whim decides to try it out. Gaining popularity is a fad called Rekall, which implants fake memories into customers’ brains since exotic travel, vacations, and other luxury getaways are non-existent. It’s in this dark future we meet Douglas Quaid, played by Colin Farrell, a factory worker who has strange dreams of running for his life with a woman (Jessica Biel) he doesn’t know. (The politics of referring to a futuristic Australia as “The Colony,” when in reality the country was never ceded by its indigenous groups to the British, are scarcely addressed, making the worldbuilding of this movie extra wobbly.) Travel between the UFB and the Colony takes only minutes, thanks to a high-speed elevator called “The Fall” that runs through the core of the Earth. On a future Earth (and not Mars, like in Verhoeven’s movie) ravaged by chemical warfare, there remain just two major territories: The United Federation of Britain and The Colony, which covers what used to be Australia. The bones of 2012’s Total Recall are the same as those of the original, though Paul Verhoeven’s version easily stacks more meat on them.
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