Poll Is Total Recall (1990) ambiguous? (219 votes)
Alright, so I'm in the middle of the latest Blue Bombin, and I need to check. Do you find the ending to Total Recall ambiguous?
I always thought the plot was pretty straight forward. Yeah, it's a crazy sci-fi movie with action scenes and weird imagery scattered throughout, but the plot always felt like a fish out of water / double agent movie. The movie just peels off the layers the further in you go until the big revelation that Quaid is really Hauser.
However, the most I've heard people talk about Total Recall--besides it being a pretty good action movie--is people like Dan mentioning they were confused about something. This past year, I watched it with my brother, and he also didn't know what to think of the ending. This seemed like a one off thing, but it feels like this is more divisive than I originally thought.
What says y'all?
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