**Part of my 2022 Sci-Fi Tuesdays**

Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall is a movie filled with practical effects, gory violence, mutants, and three breasted women (Well, not that many of the last one, but still worth mentioning), and...I love it. The perfect blend of sleaze, cartoony characters and violence, and sci-fi storytelling. Well worth spending some time with now and then.

I was a bit too young to watch this in the cinemas back in 1990, but I remember the guys got together at my house to watch it as soon as it got a VHS release here in Norway. It was the event of that year for many of us. We were, of course, familiar with both Verhoeven (Because of Robocop) and Schwarzenegger (Because of Commando, Terminator and Predator), and were told that Total Recall would be better than anything we have ever seen, and to us, at that specific time, I think it was. That might have changed somewhat, at least for me, but it still ranks up there as an important moment in my movie watching life.

This time I watched it in 4k with the 30th anniversary Blu-ray, and I have to say it has never looked as good, although...there are some moments that you can see that the actors have worked in front of a green screen. I can't say I can remember that from any other release, but it didn't really ruin much of my enjoyment, so who cares.

I recommend both the 4k version and the film itself. Go get it and watch it!!