Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
The film deals with idea around memory and supressed lives coming to the front, and no it doesn’t have any of the cheesy fun of the Arnold Schwarzenegger version.
I hadn’t seen this film since I first saw it in cinemas all those years ago, and much like the subject of this film I must have had my memories supressed as I didn’t remember it at all, then I watched it again and all of a sudden the memories came back to me and I remember why I had forgot it. This film is aggressively average.
Colin Farrell is fine here but he is not allowed to have any fun in the role at all, and the film as a whole takes itself far too seriously. The Schwarzenegger version wasn’t a comedy by any means but it was silly enough to make it an entertaining watch, whether that was deliberate or not, this film does not have that campy charm.
Honestly this film is just a hodgepodge of generic science fiction cliches and manages to do nothing even remotely interesting.
Overall, erase these memories.
Pros.
It is watchable
The visuals are reasonably sound
Cons.
Farrell is bland
It is generic
It is on for far, far too long
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