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Total Recall 2070 (5-Jan-1999)
Director: Mario Azzopardi Keywords: Sci-Fi, Robots Horrifically bad ripoff of Total Recall.
REVIEWS Review by anonymous (posted on 12-Mar-2006) I would like to start by saying
that this "movie" is the first two episodes of a pilot season which ran
for 22 episodes. The rating of two-and-a-half stars is for the first
two episodes and not the series as a whole. And lastly, that the
summary of this show being a "horrifically bad rip-off of Total Recall"
doesn't make any sense. For Chrissakes the name of the show is Total
Recall 2070, it's based off the same movie, or rather the same World,
which I understand is the same World that Bladerunner takes place in,
hence the similarities. I take it that the title of "Bladerunner"
wasn't up for grabs so they took the next of kin. I recently got a hold
of this whole series and I have to say it's not like any other
syndicated series I've seen. Whereas in most sci-fi shows we get a
group of people dressed in clean, pressed uniforms or aliens who look
remarkably like humans with putty on their foreheads, this series
actually manages to be much more cohesive in it's atmosphere. You wont
see these characters on some "strange" planet that looks like the
Nevada desert shooting phasers at nothingness off-screen. No this
series, despite it's uncanny "Bladerunner" impersonation, is quite
creative. It takes all of the parts from it's sources that work (which
is why there is so little Total Recall the movie in it, what's in here
is all that worked), and does it, more or less, right. I never
understood most people's disappointment with the fact that it resembles
Bladerunner more than it does Total Recall. Sometimes I wonder if those
people didn't somehow take a visit to Recall and have their memories of
the movie erased. Having no prior knowledge of this series before I saw
it, I was very pleasantly suprised. I'll take the soft, dark ambience
of Bladerunner and undertones of machine supremecy to three boobied
girls and lines like, "Screw you Benny, aaaarrrgggghh!!!" any day of
the future. Well, maybe not the three boobied part. But nevertheless,
it's a real shame this show never got more of a chance. It is unique.
Locate a copy of this film here.
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