Total Recall (2012)

The end is not entirely satisfying, but I'm pretty sure I enjoyed the Colin Farrell Total Recall more than the Arnold version (it's been 20 years and I only saw it once).  In wondering why they would choose to remake this film, we decided the original bar was set low enough that they decided they had a better chance of surviving comparisons to the original than, say, the remake of Sabrina**.

In comparing Farrell to Schwarzenegger as the protagonist, I can't help but think of Shortpacked!'s "False Equivalences" Batman.

I also can't help but notice that Our Hero needs to "escape" from a powerful, confident, competent woman to a woman who is competent enough to "deserve" him, but still needs him to save her, take the lead when they're escaping from the bad guys together, wake up first when their car crashes and carry her back to his apartment, etc.

** it's still astounding that someone believed you could swap Hepburn, Bogart, and Holden for Ormond, Ford, and Kinnear.