Total Reality

Well, I have just seen the movie on TV and I was a little bit curious to read what other has written about it.

First of all, Total Reality is of course no good movie.

It has stupid dialogues, some really dumb figures (e.g. the feds), awful sci-fi interior design, the story has holes you can send one of the spaceships through it, the photography is boring and some details are annoying (e.g. the future handguns are simple 20th century weapons like Calico or FAMAS)

But, on the other hand: the space CGI are nice animated, it has no romantic happy end, Misa Koprova is indeed very beautiful (Sic Coyote is right!), the plot has some really interesting parts (the idea of a proto-fascist book becomes the bringer of world/solar war).

The reason, why I have watched the movie was Thomas Kretschmann, a not so famous german actors as the antagonist. His character (and his buddy) is the point I don`t understand. Why is he shown as the bad guy, although he wanted to save the future from the war?

An interesting B-movie. Sometimes nice, sometimes stupid. If you are bored at 1am you can watch it. Or you can go to sleep. ;-)

As I mentioned in other comments, I became a real big fan of David Bradley ever since I saw him in "American Ninja 3". The guy is great doing martial arts, has some kind of charisma and is a cool looking dude on screen. Sadfully, he went to the DTV department ever since his debut and has remained as one of the king of TV movies until 2001 where he apparently stopped making movies. Now, one thing is watching Cyborg Cop or Hard Justice which are crappy clichéd movies but real fun to watch (coz they're entertainingly bad if that has any sort of meaning) but another thing is watching a tasteless piece of boredom like Total Reality. I mean, this and Crisis are the two biggest pieces of horse-dung this guy ever did. I wouldn't recommend this not even to the biggest Bradly hardcore fans. If I had known this and Crisis were going to be so f*****g crap, I wouldn't have spent the 3 or 4 euros they cost me. Total Reality is just as boring as Crisis although funnily, it starts promising. A group of military prisoners in the future are given a chance to stop some kind of disaster in the past (I'm sorry, I didn't really pay much attention to this atrociousness) and they only have 24 hours to get back or something like that. If they don't, they're stranded there forever. The poor director who oversaw this, "tries" some humorous (?) clichés like the convicts arriving on Earth and not knowing what a truck is for example (wow, hilarious...). The movie follows up with David Bradley teaming up with some Earth girl for the rest of the flick. This bored me so much that I had to force myself to watch it in like 3 or 4 installments to at least make use of the 4 or 5 euros it cost me. That's coz every time I tried, I fell asleep. And if you get a movie with David Bradley with just one crappy 10-second fight scene in it, then that's the final touch which would contribute to you throwing it off a hundred foot cliff so as never to see it again. I wish I could meet the "director" of this pile of poo on the street and I swear to God I'd ask him back for mi 5 euros. I'd also love to meet David Bradley to ask him why in God's name did he choose to star in this poor excuse for a movie. Don't even bother with this film, I mean it from the bottom of my heart, not renting borrowing it and specially not buying it.

This film is striking only in its banality and use of cliches. Sadly it was obvious throughout up until the ending. But don't be mistaken into thinking that it ended strongly. Only a little unexpectedly, though nothing worth watching the thing through for.

From the taciturn and wronged hero, to the Germanic baddy, to the expendable team, the characters were entirely wooden and obvious. The two FBI agents Smith and Wesson (geddit?) gave some hope of humour, but that came to nothing.

I am a big science fiction fan but it is hard to find any redeeming quality in this film. A turkey!

Loved this b-grade movie...

I never laughed so hard at a time travel sci-fi flick...from the moment the bald-headed baddie hopped in the back of a Ford pick-up and yelled "Hey, it's a Turk!" and his lead henchman sneered at him and said "Truck. It's a *truck*."

Funny stuff all the way through what would otherwise be a standard fare time travel flick.

It's another one of those low budget sci-fi films that go straight to video with David Bradley in. It's not that bad, really, sure it's a pretty standard plot, sure the effects don't look like they are real, but it's still a pretty much allright piece of entertainment. Also one thing about this movie, that Misa Koprova is beautiful! She should have had much more of a role in this, but then again that would have taken away screen time from David Bradley (star of Cyborg Cop) I bought this because he was in it, going into watching it having seen the 2 Cyborg cop films previously. How can he run straight down a straight corridor with a machine gun firing straight at him and not get hit? Because he's David Bradley! Why does he smash through a glass window when a pane that had already been smashed is right next to it, because he's David Bradley. Unfortunately he doesn't get to do much physical fighting but he still gets to do a bit(D-Von get the tables!). Anyway getting back to the point, if you like low budget DTV sci-fi affairs you'll probably be satisfied, it's on about the same level(and storyline) as Time Runner. Some parts of the film I think could have been shortened, there could have been more physical action, there could have been more shown of Misa Koprova :) and it could have done with a better ending with a twist perhaps, but other than that it's an okay piece of DTV entertainment.