A detective for a police agency is teamed with a naive new officer, who is secretly an android, and often conflicts with the Assessor's Office and the security forces of 'the Consortium', a small number of extremely powerful companies.
There have been other, bigger and/or arguably better Philip K. Dick adaptations (see: Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly) but Total Recall 2070 is a worthy entry in the cyberpunk/tech noir canon, and it deserves a second look.
It's all pretty lame stuff, tainted further by Mario Azzopardi's frenetic direction. The effects are seamless enough, but pretty much beside the point in a story that feels not just reheated but terminally lukewarm.
