It’s funny sometimes to revisit a twenty year old film
that had groundbreaking visual effects for its day. In some cases (Terminator 2: Judgment Day comes to
mind) the effects look about as good as anything today. More often than not,
however, they look more like Total Recall
There’s plenty to admire in Paul Verhoeven’s science fiction futuristic
mind-bender if you can ignore what looks like cheesy B-movie effects. Then
again, that B-movie look is somehow more fitting for the movie. After all, its
story is the stuff of classic B-movie science fiction.
