Eraser
Published 2024-09-07
Film info
- Title Eraser
- Director Chuck Russell
- Year 1996
- Run time 1hr 55m
- Genres Mystery, Action, Thriller, Drama
- Tagline He will erase your past to protect your future
- Cast Arnold Schwarzenegger
John 'The Eraser' Kruger is the top gun in the US Marshall Witness Protection scheme; he erases their past and deals with their future. His latest assignment is whistle-blower Dr Lee Cullen, who has evidence against a major arms corporation that's selling weapons to terrorists with the collusion of rogue enemy agents within, but there is danger nearer home for Kruger, from within his own department.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 4:58 | Arnie listing out things he needs, but not boots and a motorcycle? Boo. |
| 8:42 | "Easy honey, I don't think he wants to be pen pals." |
| 12:50 | Yay Vanessa Williams! |
| 17:56 | What's the point of the camera if they weren't there for the main bit? |
| 21:34 | "The operation didn't go as smoothly as we anticipated." |
| 28:10 | What the hell kind of x-ray gun would show a skeleton and water going down at the same time? |
| 37:36 | I would find it so hard deciding on a new name. |
| 46:10 | That's the weirdest way to kill someone ever. |
| 54:25 | The chair in the plane engine is both genius and awful at the same time. |
| 1:04:19 | Oh man, alligators are terrifying. |
| 1:08:31 | "It's completely hacker-proof," she says, having pressed three keys while looking at it. |
| 1:11:15 | Continuity error: no waistcoat, waistcoat, no waistcoat. |
| 1:25:11 | Love two men just fruitlessly shooting guns at each other despite a bulletproof barrier. Such a metaphor for life. |
| 1:27:23 | "Who's the tree trunk?" |
| 1:37:41 | We've gone full on Terminator here. |
Thoughts
This is such a 90s action thriller, fun and very, very watchable but oh man, it is NOT a good film. It's typical Arnie, lots of muscles and fight scenes, although he only did one pun which was a bit disappointing. The technology parts of it were so obviously nonsense - having a fight with a plane in mid-air, the bizarre new weapons, and not-technology-but-still-weird fight with alligators.
So much to not recommend it, but it was somehow still a lot of fun to watch.
Rating: 2 / 5
