Is Total Recall actually good?

Total Recall sits in the 86.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 86.7% of them.

How does Total Recall compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Total Recall lands in the 88.1% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Total Recall's score based on?

463 calibrated reviewers stand behind Total Recall's score.

1990

global pct

86.7

Film · 1990 · Films · 1990s

Total Recall

Name: Total Recall
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: 1990

Scored from 463 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

86.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

88.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

98.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

463 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A construction worker haunted by recurring dreams of Mars visits Rekall, a company that implants vacation memories, but the procedure unleashes buried secrets about his true identity. Hunted by assassins and uncertain whether his reality is genuine or an implanted fantasy, he travels to Mars to confront a ruthless governor exploiting the colony's oxygen supply.

Total Recall (1990) is a film IMDb files under the action, adventure and science-fiction genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. 463 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 472 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 7,540 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.