Two idealistic outcasts in the County Sheriff's Office, the first black deputy and the first female deputy (the cherub-faced Michael Boatman and the pixie-haired Lori Petty), pool forces to unmask police corruption, racism, sexism, the whole ball of wax. The churning, slow-going exposition works its way into a pretty jittery …
Paul Verhoeven has cushioned himself against the common accusations flung at the Robert Heinlein boys' sci-fi adventure -—"fascism," "puerilism" — with an overall larkish air of insincerity. Correction: one area of presumable sincerity might be the continuation of his career-long quest of the physically repellent. Plenty of scope here for …
Amid a host of amusing ideas about our possible future, an engrossing central one: artificially implanted memories, courtesy of Rekall, Inc. ("as real as any memory in your head ... and that's guaranteed"); and of course artificially erased ones, too. (Not to be included among the amusing ideas are the …