Paul Verhoeven's Total Recalls is awesome. The movie is about a taxi driver called Benny who has a dark secret. He works as a space taxi driver on the Mars colony and lives a fairly uneventful life until a seemingly unimportant fare arrives called Douglas Quaid played by the governor of California.
Quaid asks to go to the titty bar and during the journey through the hitchcockian passages we learn that Benny has a sizable family of 5 children. Benny thinks nothing of it until they meet each other again at the airlock where Benny goes to relax and contemplate life's worries.
An amazingly tense scene progresses where we learn the awful truth behind Benny's dark secret...
** SPOILER ALERT **
...Benny only had 4 children to feed! Not since the 'Sixth Sense' movie have I experienced such a powerful plot twist.
I could go on about the towel scene or the three breasted humanoid but it's a movie you need to experience for yourself.
In the end I have taken a point away from Paul Verhoeven's Total Recalls as in the credits they refer to the author Philip K. Dick as "Phillip K. Dick" when in fact he only has one 'L' in his name. These sort of things really detract from one's enjoyment of a movie.
To quote Hauser, get your arse to Mars!
