In the future there have been a number of wars in which the nations have used Chemical Weapons. As a result, most of the earth is uninhabitable. There are only two areas where people live; The Federated States of Britain is the seat of government and Australia, which is now simply called the Colony. The Government, run by a guy named Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston) is not good. People in the Colony have to commute back and forth daily to Britain for work. Wow, heck of a commute, you say. Indeed.
They travel back and forth on a tube, through the center of the earth's core. When they pass the molten core, gravity flips and they are going up instead of down. The government is building droids in Britain and it is their devious plan to send these troops to the Colony and seize it for the living space. Crowding is a problem since the wars.
Well, Hauser thinks he is just a worker bee until he becomes dissatisfied with his mundane existence and visits Rekall. It is a place where you can go and live out your fantasies via chemical injection and a mind control chair. Hauser can't think of anything better than being a spy, (duh) but then again, Kate Beckinsale is his wife Lori, so I can see why he wouldn't need any fantasy chick.
Turns out that when they put the dude under, he finds out that he is actually a spy, rather than a factory worker. His wife Lori is also a spy and she immediately tries to kill him. Perhaps the best line of the movie came in this time frame when she told the astounded Hauser that she "Gives good wife" in response to his horror that she had been married to him for 8 years, without romantic involvement.
The next revelation for Hauser is that he has a phone implanted in his hand. He finds out because he gets a call from a dude. He puts his hand to a window and sees a guy and chats with him. He is given a bank number and instructions on what to do. He still doesn't remember anything about his past life as a spy. In an alley, as he is fleeing, he cuts the phone out of his hand because his psycho, agent wife and her friends are tracing him by this technology. Yeah, gross. He gives the phone to an admiring street kid. Hey, the kid didn't have to stand in line at Apple for that thing.
This movie is full of cool tech items like that. For instance, Hauser goes to his former apartment and discovers that he can suddenly play the piano. He discovers a dead key on the keyboard and sees a video made by himself, telling him what to do. A piano that plays secret files is what I always wanted. He is instructed to go to the leader of a resistance group. The guy is named Matthias (Bill Nighy).
Luckily, the fleeing Hauser discovers he is a very dangerous man. He has spy skills, all of a sudden. Then he gets some aid from hot resistance spy lady Jessica Biel. How can you not like a movie with two very dangerous women in it? Either of these ladies could play Karina in my book, KGB Retirement Program.
I'll rest my case here because there are a few surprises, twists and turns, I don't want to mess up. Carley thinks it is a guy flick, but she thinks for action movie fans it would be a 4 stars out of 5. I think that is a fair assessment; if anything it might be a tad under that. Still, the interesting tech stuff, the good acting, overall, and smashing action scenes make this worth seeing at the theater. I might give this film a bit of an edge over the Batman flick we saw two weeks ago. Besides, I like Colin Farrell, especially in The Recruit with Al Pacino.
Oh, in answer to your question, the frog pictured above is not in the film. He is a friend who dropped by the green retreat. He was supposed to control the fly population but was woefully inadequate to the task. I replaced him with a fly swatter and carried him into the woods.
I'm CE Wills.
P.S. Those are not my socks.
P.P.S. I almost forgot the most important thing about the movie. The storm trooper wannabees used a weapon from Mass Effect Infiltrator. It was a deal where an electronic leash goes out and wraps glowing ropes of power around a poor unfortunate guy and jerks him back to you. I am sitting there and I think, "Wow, cool! I've done that same thing to guys!" (They had just done that to Colin Farrell in the movie.)
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