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Title:
Total Recall
Region:
One
Genre:
Science Fiction Action
Stars:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, and Ronny
Cox
Writers:
Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon, and Gary Goldman
Screen
Story By: Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon, and Jon Povill
Inspired
By The Short Story “We Can Dream It For Wholesale” By Philip K. Dick
Director:
Paul Verhoeven
Feature
length: 113 minutes
Extras:
Audio Commentary With Arnold Schwarzenegger and Director Paul Verhoeven,
“Visions Of Mars” Featurette
Languages:
English Dolby Headphone Soundtrack and Stereo Sound
Subtitles:
English and Spanish Language Subtitles
Packaging:
Keep Case
Chapter
Stops: 27
Sound:
Dolby Headphone Soundtrack and Stereo Sound
Year of
Theatrical Release: 1990/UMD Release: 2005
Theatrical
Distributor: TriStar Pictures and Carolco
Home
Video Distributor: Lions Gate Home Entertainment
MPAA
Rating: R
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
Perception
and memories are highly subjective and not concrete. Twentieth century writers
have explored this in science fiction decades before any other genre touched
upon it. Adapted from noted science fiction author Philip K. Dick, “Total
Recall” explores these themes and combines them with action and profound
thoughts too. Lions Gate Home Entertainment has ported over some of the special
features found on the DVD release for this new UMD version of “Total
Recall.” As Artisan had blazed a few trails in DVD by marketing the first
commercially available dual layered disc, DVD-18, and then a high definition DVD
version that could accessed through Windows with “Terminator 2: Judgment
Day,” Lions Gate Home Entertainment has become the first major Hollywood
distributor to actually include DVD features like an audio commentary and so
forth for UMD-Video for PSP users on their releases.
The 16 by
9 widescreen presentation has vibrant colors with little visible grain and no
color bleeding. It simply looks beautiful. An English Dolby Headphone Soundtrack
mix designed especially for the ear buds that come with the PSP is provided
along with a standard, but clear English Stereo Soundtrack. English and Spanish
Language Subtitles are also encoded as options.
The gem
of this UMD is a feature length audio commentary track with Paul Verhoeven and
Arnold Schwarzenegger discussing the film in great detail. The only other
commentary track Arnold Schwarzenegger has ever participated in to my knowledge
is Universal’s “Conan The Barbarian: Collector’s Edition.”
Schwarzenegger adds short comments mostly, often agreeing with Verhoeven, who
delivers another engaging screen specific commentary as he has in the past on
the “Robocop”, “Starship Troopers”, “Hollow Man”, and “Basic
Instinct” DVD releases. Among some of interesting anecdotes about the film
that one will learn from the commentary was that Schwarzenegger had been eyeing
the project for years and got Carolco to buy the film rights that had been held
by Dino De Laurentis. Arnold also
sought Verhoeven out to direct the film after seeing and loving his American
film debut “Robocop.” Also quite interesting are some of the actors who were
being considered for Schwarzenegger’s role before Carolco had gotten involved
and how the original sequel idea for “Total Recall” would have been based on
the Philip K. Dick story “Minority Report,” which ultimately was brought to
the big screen by Steven Spielberg.
There are
other extra value features that were originally included on the DVD that are now
present on the UMD too. A featurette entitled “Visions Of Mars” runs just over
5-minutes and features interviews from JPL staff members discussing the
scientific possibilities of visiting Mars and discovering the world’s secrets.
Other films adapted from the work of Philip K. Dick include “Blade Runner”,
“Screamers”, Impostor”, “Minority Report” and a made for cable TV
series entitled “Total Recall 2070” that aired on the Showtime Cable Network
for one season in 1999. The pilot “Machine Dreams” is available on DVD in
America while the entire series is available on DVD as an import from Japan. The
year in which the events of “Total Recall” take place is 2085, but “Total
Recall 2070” seemed to have more in common with “Blade Runner” than
“Total Recall.” The latest feature film to be adapted from a Philip K. Dick
story entitled “A Scanner Darkly” is expected to be released in theaters
this fall. The menus are fully
animated with full motion scene selections too.
“Total
Recall” is available on UMD-Video for PSP now at retailers on and offline
courtesy of Lions Gate Home Entertainment.
©
Copyright 2005 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.
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