Watch the original with Arnold. It is a great movie though a bit dated.Kate Beckinsale is the only redeeming factor for this movie. She is hot and funny a hell. The hillarious anecdote about the "slide and knockout with her private parts" scene is the only excuse for this movie existing. And KB is a greate storyteller! Find it on youtube.

After skimming a number of reviews I was surprised to found quite a few complained that this action movie had too much action! People, this is not ossello, it's meant for you to sit in the audience, eat popcorn, have a little Pepsi and enjoy yourself. It is not the original movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. To make the comparisons are fruitless and futile. I found the movie was made with great imagination, skill, spectacular stunts and giving me the impression I wouldn't want Kate Beckinsale chasing me. This was a very very good movie, I might even say it was a great movie. I seen it three times now, that doesn't happen much. It has excellent CGI. You cannot tell the robots are not real. There were a few plot pitfalls but hey, it's just a movie. It is definitely not worth the ratings that the haters be hating it with. I absolutely loved the fight sequences, all of them. As mentioned above, Kate Beckinsale is amazing in this movie. The most beautiful psychopath I have ever seen. If I were ever going to be murdered buy a beautiful sociopath I wanted to be her. My recommendation are forget about all the negative reviews, personally I have no understanding of what these people were expecting but I found the movie pretty good. Not comparable to the original, but on its own it's a great flick! You have my word on it.

Total Recall, the 2012 reboot version, is the mere shadow of the original. I must admit, I hoped much more from this film than it actually delivered. First, the actors! Colin Farell and Kate Winslet are real actors, good ones, I think, but the dubious script does nothing to give them something to work with. The dialogues are boring and most of the times it feels they are just there to lead from dull action scene to another. Second, the action scenes! They quickly become boring and repetitive and just artificially make the movie longer, not any way better. I would appreciate a good action movie, but the action in Total Recal:2012 is just hilarious, I must admit. I would not recommend this movie to anyone, although if you want to watch, how to make a bad movie, this one for you.

I have never seen the original, and so I did't go into this movie with any feelings of what it should be. And I'll admit that a lot of the characters seem a little artificial, and the development is not all that great. And since I am not really a huge fan of the action genre, this could have put me off. But the pacing was perfect, and the graphics were something else entirely. It really is a perfect action movie. I mean, the scenes involving multi-tier cities, and falling through the earth blew my mind. The robots were awesome.