The 32 Most Memorable Bryan Cranston Roles

The 1990 sci-fi/action film "Total Recall" has become an enduring favorite since its release, and for good reason — between its brutal deaths, imaginative worldbuilding, and a killer performance by everyone's favorite former California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, what's not to love? Unfortunately, while it managed to deliver on some truly exciting action sequences, the 2012 remake lacked everything that made the original so memorable.

After the surface of the earth has been largely decimated by warfare, the only two habitable regions on the planet are the United Federation of Britain and the continent of Australia, now known just as "The Colony." At the head of the United Federation of Britain is Cranston's character, Chancellor Vilos Cohaagen, a despotic warmongerer who's concocting a scheme to invade the colony and unite what's left of the world under his tyrannical rule. The only one capable of stopping him is Douglas Quaid, a laborer whose trip to the Rekall memory implantation company spurs him into action, all while he's forced to question what's real and what's fake.