It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Eraser is a top notch Schwarzenegger vehicle, and in a year where the only other Arnie entry was the mind numbing Jingle All The Way, it supplies 1996 with that jolt of action from our favourite Austrian juggernaut. Here he's John Kruger, a US Marshal who specializes in an obscure wing of the witness protection program that literally wipes people's memories clean before replacement. The technology is naturally hoarded over by big old corporations which as we know aren't to be trusted in these type of films. During a routine mission to help beautiful client Vanessa Williams, Kruger begins to suspect his own colleagues of some shady shit involving the sale of high grade weapons, and before he knows it he in the crosshairs and on the run with Vanessa tagging along. It's all smarmy James Caan's fault really, who plays his devilish, treacherous superior officer at the WitSec agency, a classic case of ambition gone rogue, his villainous cackle trademark of someone you just shouldn't trust, even before his true colours are bared. The action is fast, furious and rooted in 90's sensibilities, with all manner of attack helicopter chases, massive artillery fired off at a whim and the the near SciFi concept frequently smothered by the shock and awe campaign of each set piece, which is fine in an Arnie flick really, I mean they can't all be Terminators and Total Recalls. There's a neat rogues gallery of character actors filling in the wings in addition to the big guy, Williams and Caan, including Olek Krupa, Patrick Kilpatrick, James Cromwell, Danny Nucci, Robert Pastorelli, Joe Viterelli, Mark Rolston, John Slattery, Roma Maffia, Tony Longo, Melora Walters, Camryn Mannheim, Skip Sudduth and Nick Chinlund as Caan's unwitting henchman. There's also a delightful cameo from James Coburn as the WitSet CEO, doing the same pleasant 'sort of a villain, but also sort of not' shtick he did in Payback. One of Arnie's more low key efforts, but still more than serviceable and a slam bang damn great time at the action races.

Usually i don't watch Schwarzy movies because it's dumb (but well done) action-violence flicks punctuated by his funny (silly) lines, except if the story is particularly original (like terminator, true lies).... Here, it's not the case as i understand that his (really simple) job is to give new papers and address to protected witness! Beyond, i don't understand anything and especially why dealing arms with a senator leads to such erasing!! Honestly i picked this movie for his witness, the cute Vanessa Williams. Caan is also good as the usual bastard and i'm amazed by such technology! My reaction to this high-tech is to know if it's real or not: in France, for example, in no way, our administration is as advanced as what is shown in the movie! At the end, it's not all bad but taken as a whole, it's however a bit boring for me, particularly flawed by a complicated story!

Continuing my plan to watch ever movie in Arnold Schwarzenegger's filmography in order, I come to Eraser.Plot In A Paragraph: A Witness Protection specialist (Arnie) becomes suspicious of his co- workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.Rewatching this for the first time in years, I found it very underwhelming, and it hasn't held up that well if I'm honest. A muddled script, some ropey CGI and a poor use of stunt doubles coupled up with an uninteresting female lead and some bad supporting actors leaves Eraser too campy and slightly lacklustre. As with Junior, Arnie barely mentions Eraser in his autobiography Total Recall. Eraser was the 14th highest grossing movie of 1996, with a domestic haul of $101 million.

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.