Good review Mike, nice flow. I might catch this in the theatre given your comment on the vfx, it was going to be one I grabbed on disc.

There is one serious, pressing question your review didn't address; is there a woman with three breasts?

I'd watch a Total Recall remake by someone like Darren Aronofsky.

Len Wiseman? Yawn.

Ya, we desperately need hollywood trends to swing back towards the cheesier 80s stuff, cause I am so fucking tired of grim, lifeless action movies.

Fingers crossed for Expendables 2 (and also The Last Stand, if anyone can make an awesome Schwarzenegger movie it's Kim-Je Woon, that guy has an amazing eye for action)

It's PG-13, so if nipples are allowed, it'll be for a split-second and no fondling allowed.
But PG-13 doesn't prevent you from having 1000 bloodless shooting deaths aka 'A-Team violence'

It's interesting that while the overall direction of prudishness has been improving over the last century, around the 1980s onwards, it split i.e. there was a reversal back into puritanism when it came to nudity, but graphic violence continued to get much more frequent & realistic. But recently, both have declined again in mainstream cinema (most tentpoles are PG-13). I was surprised how sanitized TDKR was.

Ya, there's so many different ways you could go with the story. Another reason this was such a criminally missed opportunity. They could have totally started it out like the Arnie version, then have some crazy mind-fuck twist/subversion a third of the way through, and go off into a completely different story.

Man, those robot cops are useless. They only kill innocent passers-by and never hit their target.