With the Total Recall remake now only a couple of months a way from widespread release (and having just received its own new trailer), it’s the perfect time to start gearing up to resell the original movie; the 1990 sci-fi classic which is soon to be re-released at cinemas nationwide (for one night only), and has just had its own brand new trailer released (now available to view below).
For those who haven’t seen the original movie, it’s based on the Philip K. Dick short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” and finds Arnold Schwarzenegger so unhappy with his life (because really, who’d want a nice house, decent living, and to be doted on 24/7 by a loving, and apparently constantly randy, Sharon Stone?) that he visits a company who offer virtual vacations (via memory implants) that are supposedly better than the real thing, and after a slight technical hiccup, finds out his whole life may actually be a sham, and that he’s actually a secret agent with connections to the colonies on Mars. Or is he?
Aside from the wonderful effects, great cast (which also includes the likes of Michael Ironside, Ronny Cox, Rachel Ticotin, and a three-breasted woman), and fantastically unforgettable one-liners, the brilliance of the Paul Verhoeven movie comes from never knowing if Arnie really is this secret agent or not; was his life a lie? is he really a secret agent? or is he still sat in the Recall chair, trapped in a vivid delusion?
Fans will now have the chance to not only revisit that question, and once again experience a true piece of classic cinema, and possibly the best action/sci-fi movie ever released, as Total Recall will be returning to cinemas for only day only, on July 10th, with a brand new Hi-Def transfer, in order to promote the upcoming Blu-ray release; which is scheduled for July 16th, and will see Total Recall released on both Triple Play Blu-ray, and Steelbook Triple Play Blu-ray edition.
Matt Wheeldon.
Source: Empire.
