This movie was an old favorite of mine, I always loved the cheesy Arnold Sci-Fi flicks, especially ones written by Philip K. Dick. (And this is the first time I've been able to watch it in High Definition.) In this one he plays a regular guy in the future who is compelled to take a trip to Mars for no reason. His hot wife (1990) Sharon Stone doesn't want him to go, so he skips out on work one day and goes to a vacation memory implant center (they have those in the future, doy) to get his Mars fix.
Turns out he's had his memory altered before and he used to work for some evil corporation and they were trying to hush him up by erasing his memory and giving him a hot wife (seriously this was 1990 don't start looking at movies like "Basic Instinct 2" now) until the issue with the psychic mutant population on mars was dealt with.
Anyway he has to go to Mars for real and figure out what is going on with the evil corporation and what his own past self really uncovered for the corporation to silence him this way. The result is unadulterated Schwarzenegger action. As Quad he doesn't take shit from nobody, saves the day and the entire planet from destruction by the evil corporation. Just like the vacation memory implant center said he would... Was it all just an implanted dream? .....Who will ever know the credits roll right after they ask that question. We should ask ol' Phil Dick. Oh yeah he's dead.
Anyway this movie had some great special effects for its time. In the pre-CGI era of moviemaking they able to create a martian landscape that was believable with miniature models and created fake prostheses (like three breasted mutant working girls) that could easily be fantasized about. It's easy to understand why this movie was able to captivate so many nerds at that time. Overall it is easy to see why this movie still holds up even today as the amount of effort and creativity that went into it is mind boggling. This movie shows its age, but still ranks in my personal top twenty movies of all time.
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