Factual error: In the movie, when the elevator ("the fall") reaches the middle of the planet, everything turns weightless. In reality, everything should have turned weightless as soon as the elevator was dropped, given they're in freefall.
Total Recall (2012)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Len Wiseman
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Bryan Cranston, Bokeem Woodbine
Douglas Quaid is really Cole Hauser, a spy for Cohaagen sent to infiltrate the resistance who unintentionally fell in love with Melina and chose to work for them. Cohaagen sends an army of robotic sentries to the Colony via the Fall to destroy the citizens there, but Hauser and Melina blow up the Fall and kill Cohaagen. Hauser wakes up in a medical facility where his "wife" Lori tries to kill him, but he kills her. 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.
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More mistakes in Total Recall
Matthias: It it each man's quest to find out who he truly is but the answer to that lies in the present, not in the past. As it is for all of us.
Doug Quaid: But the past tells us who we've become.
Matthias: The past is a construct of the mind. It blinds us. It fools us into believing it. But the heart wants to live in the present. Look there. You'll find your answer.
Trivia: When Quaid gets to great Britain with the fake passport and fake face, before him is a fat lady in green who strongly resembles the "costume" used by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the original film.
Question: At the end of the movie Colin Farrel checks his arm and sees that the mark they put when he was sitting in the "recall" chair was gone. Does this mean this was all a dream? I mean, the "spy recall" that he wanted?
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Answer: The absence of the tattoo on Quaid's arm hints that the whole scenario could have been a memory, brought on by Rekall.
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