Not to be too picky, but I thought that TR failed to do a lot of things that some of those writing about it seem to think it did simply because its conceptions were (for lack of a better word) really sloppy. One trivial example: when the guards discover Arnold's disguise upon his arrival on mars, they open fire with weapons that pierce the dome, creating a huge release of air. They then struggle to (manually) close an emergency dome layer. Give me a break! If your survival depended on an absolutely sealed dome you would not a) arm all the guards with dome-piercing weapons nor b) have a manually operated dome-protection system if the dome did get pierced. There were some good action sequences in TR and I was momentarily intruiged (particularly during the film's second to last sequence when Quaid's "real" identity is revealed) by the identity issue, but the film so frequently strained my ability to suspend disbelief that, IMHO, the film failed to be a convincing exploration of the issues that it seemed to be interested in. -- Ben Alpers Princeton University