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.

The question on everyone's mind was what was the point of remaking this movie? Verhoeven's peace was a classic in it's own way and his movies are best left alone, as remake of Robocop confirmed as well.If this movie was not a remake, it could be viewed as quite decent. Even as a remake, it is not bad, though there is way too much action and CGI for my taste and the story was not as developed as well as it could be, though the original movie was not that much better in that department either. The male major roles are decently acted, but two leading female roles are somewhat lacking, though they are not horrible by any means.I did like the brushes with the original here and there, mentioning of Mars, a familiar lady at the police checkpoint, etc. And I also liked that in this movie it is suggested stronger that everything is fantasy, while in the original it was suggested that it was reality. I am talking about the director's cut, the original theater version was kind of crap and it had a slightly different ending.

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.

Well....will all the crybabies please go home! So many ridiculous rants about this movie being different than the original. Shut the H**l up. It's a new film for a new audience. I never saw the original and I really enjoyed this movie. Great action, lots of sci-fi built in, and enough intrigue to make you want to rewind and look at it again. The leads are awesome and do a great job. Good Blade Runner vibe. I saw it twice about a year apart and I'm ready to see it again - and I consider myself picky about movies. Again - don't let the naysayers with all the exaggeration fool you (worst movie ever!!!), I think you'll enjoy this if you like the trailer.