
Movies that feel likeTotal Recall (2012)
If you loved Total Recall, the closest films we have are The Book of Eli (2010), District B13 (2004) and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003). All three share Total Recall's kinetic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is eXistenZ (1999).
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If Total Recall hit the spot, these will too

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dystopia
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Kinetic and cerebral in the same breath

Tense where it counts, bleak underneath

Kinetic action in both cases

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Action with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

Both lean on momentum more than on science fiction

Thriller built on ideas, twice over

Tense action in both cases
The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Science fiction built on bleakness, twice over
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