Total Recall
1st Trailer
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Person of Interest: A handsome yet confused Colin Farrell, his newly-evil British girlfriend Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel as some boring girl, and a cameoing Bryan Cranston at the end.
Scene Pop: Farrell takes down eight police enforcers while the camera bouncy-balls around the room.
Briggs Breakdown: 11 dead police, two parkour, two fist fights, multiple pistols and machine guns fired, an elevator gunfight in zero-g, a hover car chase, a train chase, one crushed "normal" car by gravity, one shattered glass display, and the use of some type of net/tether capture gun.
Effective?: A bit generic, but yes, largely due to the score and matched cuts.
Check it Out?: Maybe. The marketing looks exactly like Source Code, the trailer's music is like Inception, and the plot looks to be almost the same as the original movie, right down to the re-use of the facial disguise to enter Mars scene. It does look like it will keep the original's plot line of constantly guessing whether Farrell is dreaming or not. The most interesting thing from the trailer, however, is the art direction, with the sleek cyber police suits and how the city has different Escher-like layers of living, from the magnetic hover cars to the bottom dwellers driving SUVs and vans.
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