The action film also seems to owe something important to Verhoeven's Total Recall , with its heavy focus on action, and on a hero attempting to navigate a world and personal relationships he doesn't fully understand yet. But this overlong iteration of such a future feels phoned in and clunky, no more than a mildly colorful back drop for car chases and gun fights. This year I've actually seen more commercial movies than I have in many previous calendar years. This is not to say that there are no distinctions. And so his mentor, Sol, has passed on one final bit of wisdom to him; to the next generation: a natural vision of what human existence COULD be.
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