Eraser

R 6.2
1996 1 hr 55 min Drama , Action , Thriller , Mystery

U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to terrorist groups. When Kruger discovers that there's a corrupt agent within the program, he must guard his own life while trying to protect Lee's.

  • Cast:
    Arnold Schwarzenegger , Vanessa Williams , James Caan , James Coburn , Robert Pastorelli , James Cromwell , Danny Nucci

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Reviews

PodBill
1996/06/21

Just what I expected

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Dorathen
1996/06/22

Better Late Then Never

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Maidexpl
1996/06/23

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

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Kaydan Christian
1996/06/24

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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adonis98-743-186503
1996/06/25

Eraser is another Underrated Arnold Movie and i'm amazed that it has such a low score in IMDb the film is full of action and some great one liners. Arnold is great as always the rest of the cast does a pretty great job James Caan is cool and Vanessa Williams is good as well. The best scene from the film is when he grabs the 2 guns and he starts shooting people it's like watching a human Terminator killing resistance soldiers. This movie is EPIC by miles great action, great cast and a good story they don't make them like this anymore that's for sure. If you love Arnie and his movies then you gonna love this film. You're Luggage 10 out of 10

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wmansue
1996/06/26

This is a very good movie if you know anything about the corruption that exists in the Military Industrial Complex__the companies that the fake government gives blank checks to in order to receive advanced weapon systems to kill camel jockeys! Did anybody associate the scene with James Caan and AS and the 727 and the 911 attack on the WTCs by Boeing jets? Why didn't anybody try and shoot the jets down? Too bad Arnold wasn't flying around lower Manhattan in a Cessna or Lear Jet on September 11. I'm sure Arnold would have crashed his jet into the big Boeings to stop the attack. Oh, that is the Hollywood version. Anyway, Erasure is not factual because the MIC can DOA anybody, anywhere, for any reason, and no reason at all and this is why the DOD should be destroyed or reduced in size.

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bowmanblue
1996/06/27

To enjoy Eraser you must...1. Already like Schwarzenegger and his films 2. Suspend your disbelief 3. Have popcorn and nibbles on hand while you watch 4. Find a comfy chair 5. Enjoy the ride If you can do that, you'll find that your two hours spent in front of the TV will not be wasted.Simple as that. Some people called Eraser 'Arnie's last great action film' (not including Terminator 3). That it may be. He got old. He went into politics. Action heroes became younger, better-looking and the stunts they participated in more elaborate and dangerous.So maybe Eraser is Arnie's 'swansong?' Maybe not. I hear he's gearing up to do some 'post-politics' acting. If so, following in Eraser's footsteps would not be that badder place to start.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

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jimbo-53-186511
1996/06/28

John Kruger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a US Marshal who specialises in Witness Protection. Lee Cullen (Vanessa Williams) is an employee of CYREZ who, with the assistance of the FBI attempts to infiltrate her own organisation as it is believed that her boss William Donohue (James Cromwell) is selling weapons illegally on the black market. Cullen manages to acquire a disk which contains vital evidence regarding the illicit deal, but when those that Donohue are working for find out that Cullen has this piece of evidence, they set about doing everything they can to silence her and it's down to John Kruger to do his best to protect her; As action thrillers go this is fairly generic with very little in the way of surprises. However, the story is constantly engaging and the action never really lets up throughout the 115 minute running time. Caan was solid as always and I also felt that Vanessa Williams was also fairly convincing in her respective role. The film also has quite a lot of 'tongue in cheek' humour running through it such as when Kruger parachutes out of a plane and lands in a car compound and asks a couple of kids where he is and they just reply 'Earth'. Another funny moment is when Kruger catches up with Cullen and she says 'You're late' and Kruger replies 'Traffic'. It just showed that the film maker's managed to make a serious film, but not one that took itself too seriously. Michael Bay does this a lot (I know that he has a lot of haters, but I meant this as a compliment).Whilst I'm all for fun and things not always being taken seriously in actions films, I do get bothered when filmmaker's create set pieces that defy the law of physics in order to make things more exciting; there is a scene on the aircraft where Arnie opens the door at a relatively high altitude. However, for some reason he isn't sucked out of the door even when he's sat next to it and seemingly doesn't have to hold onto anything to stay in the aircraft. Then a short while later, he finds himself clinging onto the edge of the door on the outside of the plane (Laws of Physics have now been remembered) and then he lets go and manages to avoid being sucked into one of the engines which is directly behind him (admittedly it was on fire, but surely it still would have had enough force to suck him into the engine rather than under it). Exciting? Yes, Plausible? Hell no!!!!!Then the following scene shows him chasing a parachute through the sky (which has clearly been ripped off from the start of Moonraker)Then we come to Arnie himself, whilst there's no denying that he's not the best of actors, I personally feel that he is one of the best when it comes to delivering the 'One Liners' - he seems to do it in a dry sort of way which just almost seems effortless. Of course, he's also such a big screen presence that he doesn't always need much dialogue to be awesome (think about the first Terminator film - how many lines did he actually have in that film and he was still brilliant and so was that film).In summary, this is a fairly generic film which we have seen several times before with very few surprises. However, it's serviceable because the story is good, the performances from the main cast are good and the film never lags or loses momentum for one minute. Whilst, it's far from being Arnie's best (admittedly the bar has been set high with films like T2, T1, Predator etc) this is still a very good film which seems to have been overlooked by a lot of people. Definitely worth watching!

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