YMMV / Total Recall (2012)

• Best Known for the Fanservice: Some fans only watch it for Jessica Biel and Kate Beckinsale's scenes.
• Better on DVD: The extended cut is better received for fixing some plot holes.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • The three-breasted prostitute. There are no other mutants in this version, and her reason for having three breasts is unexplained.
  • The appearance of the "Two weeks" woman, which exists for absolutely no reason other than to reference the original film. If you didn't see it, you'll be completely mystified as to why the camera puts so much focus on this random background person.
• Complete Monster: Lori is an agent assigned by United Federation of Britain Chancellor Cohaagen to pretend to be Douglas Quaid's wife. When Quaid goes to Rekall and begins uncovering his old life as Carl Hauser, Lori has a team murder the entire staff at Rekall and tries to murder Quaid herself, killing an innocent man in the process. Brutalizing a witness to gain information, Lori disregards Cohaagen's orders to capture Quaid alive and takes great joy in the thought of murdering him. When Lori later tracks down Quaid and his ally Melina, she tries to trick Quaid into killing Melina, before gunning down several civilians while chasing them. Lori later helps Cohaagen wipe out the resistance and taunts Quaid when he's about to have his memories replaced with those of Hauser. Lori then helps oversee Cohaagen's attempted invasion of the Colony which would kill millions, and when Quaid stops the invasion, Lori murders a man and disguises herself as Melina in a final attempt to kill Quaid.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: Hooray! The Fall is destroyed! Which means that anyone who lives in the UFB and works in the Colony is now stuck there, with no means of getting home, and vice versa! And there's likely not enough resources left in the world to rebuild the Fall. Wait ... how was this even a happy ending at all?
• Hollywood Homely: A rare male version, as upon revealing the truth to Quaid, Lori mocks him for thinking that a schlub like him could ever land a beauty like her. This is Colin Farrell we're talking about.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Some people watch the film for Kate Beckinsale's Lori.
• So Okay, It's Average: When setting aside the much loved original and looking at the remake on its own merits, the general consensus seems to be that it's an average action movie that manages not to be awful. Most critics say this is largely due to the fact the film never really takes any risks, and its more serious approach takes away the fun that was present in the original.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many of the complaints of the movie were that it didn't have the fun and thrill of the 1990's version, and instead tried to play it too seriously. Furthermore much of the Mind Screw is also largely gone, though considering how much a part of the original Total Recall that was, its absence was probably justified.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Some detractors complained that the film's visual style borrows too much from other Philip K. Dick adaptations such as Blade Runner and Minority Report instead of trying to be more original and stand out on its own.

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