Writing: 5/10
Acting: 5/10
Tonal sanity/appeal: 5/10
Arnold Swartzeneggers: 5/10
Sharon Stones: 7/10
Aliens: 3/10
Rocks: 7/10
Michael Ironsides: Balsa Wood Sides/Iron Sides
That American Senator-looking guy: 8/10 Total Cunt :thumbsup:
~~There's this anime about some Mars people and they're being invaded for profit or something like that, and it's called Dailos or something like that. Anyway it's a hell of a lot better than this.~~


Terrible. Truly painful to watch for much of it due to incompetent character writing and execution, but it fails to be stupid fun due to how outrageously gory and indugently violent it is, tonally often feeling like some cheap 1980s violence porn movie where the protagonist is a Budweiser-guzzling rapist living alone in the desert. Paul Verhoven really perplexes me with how inconsistent he is. But since it is Paul Verhoven, some of the sci-fi elements and megacorp stuff are done competently, but Arnold and the bloody ham sandwich of a script ruin any chance to take that seriously.

The big plot reveal belongs to a much better film. Actually, it belongs to an episode of the Total Recall 2070 TV series made later, and is superior in every imaginable capacity. There's a horror episode about an alien artifact driving people insane, and it's fantastic. Watch the show instead. It can not be overemphasized how little it has in common, tonally, and regarding quality of production and characters.