Movies & TV Shows. (MORE: Total Recall Revisited: What Colin and Arnold Can Tell Us About Pop Culture). Okay, here are the spoilers: in the world of Total Recall 2012, chemical warfare has left the Earth barren with the exception of two areas, Great Britain (“The United Federation of Britain,” or UFB) and Australia (“The Colony”). The Germans had a fairly deep one about ten or 12 years ago. Hauser and Melina embrace as Hauser notices an ad for Rekall out of the corner of his eye, subtlety hinting that the whole thing might have been a dream. Action, Complex, Sci-Fi Total Recall (2012) Posted on January 31, 2016 by spoileralert7. The semi-regular series in which we totally spoil one of the weekend’s films. Follow me on Twitter @benkendrick for future reviews, as well as movie, TV, and gaming news. Just to compare: a deep-drilling project at Los Alamos called Hot Dry Rock only went a few miles into the Earth and, according to W. Scott Baldridge, also a geophysicist at the lab, it took about a decade for scientists to just develop the equipment that would allow the drilling to begin. But the science-fiction aspects of the movie don’t stop there. The Colony is like a company town for the UFB fancy-pants: the important people live up North and the workers live down South, in the dirty, crowded, rainy (except when the good guys win, d’uh) second-class region. Anyone see it yet?? The film leaves it a little open but nothing strongly suggests that any of … Okay, here are the spoilers: in the world of Total Recall 2012, chemical warfare has left the Earth barren with the exception of two areas, Great Britain (“The United Federation of Britain,” or UFB) and Australia (“The Colony”). In my opinion, the … 0. Starring: Bokeem Woodbine, Bryan Cranston, Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller. Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback. Even if such a speed were possible for the commute—and it might be necessary, in order for the craft to escape the gravitational pull of the center of the Earth—the initial tunnel dig would inevitably take much longer. Three-Breasted Woman: You're going to wish you had three hands. He knows that the terrorist attacks in the UFB, supposedly the work of the rebels, are really the UFB’s attempts to justify manufacturing more Synthetics, which they can then bring to the Colony via the Fall, to slaughter the residents and take control of the area. “In my opinion, no,” says Charlotte Rowe, a geophysicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Much of the Earth’s interior is plastic in consistency—Marc Sbar, a geophysicist who teaches at the University of Arizona, compares it to peanut butter—and, even though it moves very slowly, it does move, which would make it even more difficult to drill through. Ben Kendrick is the publisher of Screen Rant, the site's head film critic, as well as host of the Screen Rant Underground and Total Geekall podcast. This is the place! Part of a great science-fiction film is the delicate balance between awesomeness and disbelief, and movies based on Philip K. Dick stories tend to walk that line with grace—or hauntingly skitter across it, in the case of Minority Report‘s spider robots.