Total Recall

Adapting Total Recall to our globally fraught times isn’t the worst idea...

...a handy example of the Verhoeven modus operandi: crank the volume to 11, pile on the violence and invite the critics to go fuck themselves.

It’s still a guilty pleasure – though the guilt quotient is a bit higher – and that’s down to the still-extraordinary presence of the massively gym-built Arnold...

...the film keeps pulling the narrative rug out from under you in thoroughly unexpected ways that exploit the paranoid nervousness that makes Dick (...) such an insightful and important writer.