The police arrive and Harry appears, trying to convince Quaid that he is still in a Rekall-induced dream. Melina revealed that she was Hauser's lover before he was captured, comparing their matching scars from a time they were shot while holding hands in Quaid's "dream". Hauser had seen a "kill code", which could be recovered from his memory by Matthias, the Resistance leader, in order to disable the robots. The recording reveals that Cohaagen would use an army of robots to wipe out the Colony, replace the Colonists as laborers, therefore giving the UFB more living space. Hauser went rogue but was captured by the UFB and implanted with false memories to manipulate him. Recuperating at the apartment, Quaid finds another hidden recording, revealing his true identity of UFB agent Carl Hauser, working under the orders of Chancellor Cohaagen to infiltrate the Resistance. Shortly after arriving at UFB, Quaid is pursued by Lori and her team, but he is rescued by Melina, the woman from his dreams. Inside it Quaid finds a message from himself with the address of an apartment in UFB. After Quaid escapes, he receives a phone call from Charles Hammond, a former colleague of his who directs him to a safe-deposit box. She reveals that she is a UFB intelligence agent and they have only been married for six weeks, not seven years as he believed. Upon returning home, Quaid relays the incident to his wife Lori, who attempts to kill him but fails. Strange instincts kick in as Quaid defends himself, killing the entire squad. As McClane starts to question Quaid about the memories, a squad of UFB police arrive, killing the Rekall staff in an attempt to arrest Quaid. During exploratory preparations by technician McClane, they discover that Quaid already has real memories of being a spy. He decides on the fantasy of being a secret agent. Tired of his factory job building police robots with his friend Harry, he visits Rekall, a company that implants artificial memories. The disparity in living conditions has resulted in a group of people called the Resistance, deemed terrorists by the UFB, who seek to improve living conditions in the Colony.Ĭolony worker Douglas Quaid has been having unsettling dreams of being a secret agent partnered with an unnamed woman. Factory workers from the Colony commute to the UFB each day via "The Fall", a gravity elevator running through the Earth's core that takes 17 minutes to traverse. The only habitable land left consists of two territories: the United Federation of Britain (UFB), located on the British Isles and northwestern Europe and the Colony, spanning all of Australia. Īt the end of the 21st century, chemical warfare has devastated the Earth. The film received mixed to negative reviews, with the Rotten Tomatoes critical census praising the action sequences but saying that it lacks the elements of the original film that made it a classic. The film was first announced in 2009 and was released in North America on August 3, 2012, grossing over $198 million worldwide. The film blends American and Asian influences, notably in the settings and dominant populations of the two nation-states in the story: the United Federation of Britain (Western Europe) and the Colony (Australia).
Unlike the first film, the setting is on a dystopian Earth, not Mars. The supporting cast features Bryan Cranston, Bokeem Woodbine, John Cho, and Bill Nighy. The screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback was based on the 1990 film of the same name, which was inspired by the 1966 short story " We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Total Recall is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Len Wiseman and starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel.
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