Eraser

My wife and I love a good action adventure film for date night or I'll play them in the background for when I'm working. In this case Eraser is perfect for both of us; a fun throw in any time so when Amazon had a good deal on it, I grabbed it to add to our streaming library. We actually came to Eraser late - never saw it in the theatre, but found it last year one Saturday. Had fun for date - day Saturday and promised we'd keep an eye for it. Got it! Watched again! Still love it.Step into the action as Arnold saves people who've got information the bad guys don't want out - he saves the day, then erases them from being people. Part of an elite group who protect witnesses, Arnold works alone (of course) and is always vigilant. When Lee (wonderful played by underrated actress, Vanessa Williams comes forward to turn on her boss (too little screen time here for the always excellent, James Cromwell) Arnold's John Kruger fixes things. Of course they don't stay "fixed," and soon he's not just fighting the bad guys outside the department, but the mole who is setting him up inside the department. There are the obligatory chase scenes, including one on a plane (and falling from the plane), and at the zoo, but the ending is a favorite of ours.This is great Arnold fun, no catchphrases that caught on here, but it is fun and a great ride. We loved in the first time and came back to buy it, so we'll enjoy it again and again.

This is low budget Schwarzenegger, but inventive and funny. Of course the plot does not make sense, the music and special effects are very low budget, but its Fun.

Great

Great action and the cast were perfect for their parts.

Thumbs up for this movie.Four out of five stars.

This DVD showed up in great condition; and on time. It was packaged with care. The disc itself was Great! It was just as it was advertised. The case only had only small imperfections. I was very pleased! Thank you so much! 🙂

2 or 3 rentals = purchase price

The 2-year gap between True Lies and Eraser forced some action fans into thinking that Big Arn had retired. He had delivered at least one action movie per year since Terminator. Eraser had an awesome trailer, to the tune of Enigma's wonderful "I Love You, I'll Kill You", that rocked my world in the summer of 1996. I saw virtually every blockbuster that year, and the Eraser trailer was attached to every one of them. It came out out in the UK in the very last week of summer (and my first week back at school). I saw it at the now demolished UCI cinema in Edinburgh with a sold-out audience, mostly filled with guys out for a "lad's night". The movie was rated 18, and even though I was 3 years below that mark, I still got in, which was fortunate since the cinema version is the only uncut version of the film that has ever been released in the UK. For its VHS and DVD release the mad BBFC saw fit to cut 4 minutes from Eraser, turning it into an incomprehensible mess. It capped-off an awesome summer season (or so my 15-year-old self thought), and put to rest any fears that Big Arn was slowing down (although he has only made 5 action movies, to date, since then).Arn is John Kruger (an amusing choice of name since director Chuck Russell also made the 3rd Nightmare on Elm Street Movie), a Witness Protection Program Agent who is tasked with 'erasing' and protecting a high-level informant who can prove that there are traitors within the US government who are selling weapons to Russian terrorists. Naturally the informant is the lovely, and wide-eyed, Vanessa Williams, who involves herself in a subdued romantic subplot with Kruger. James Caan and the always great James Coburn provide respectable support as Kruger's antagonist and mentor, but the best support is no doubt Robert Pastorelli (an actor who I really liked who died of a heroin overdose in 2004), who plays a previous witness who is eager to please Kruger in his latest, impossible quest.Overall, it's hardly revolutionary, but what makes Eraser stand out from the crowd is the utterly breathtaking (literally) scene in which Kruger escapes a jet, mid-flight, without the comfort of a parachute on his shoulders. It's definitely one of the best action scenes in the last 20 years and, let me tell you, when that scene climaxed in the cinema, the packed audience of 'lads' totally sucked the air out of the auditorium. A massively exciting, and completely exhilarating, scene that never fails to get your heart racing.Alan Silvestri's score is one of the film's more underrated features. Silvestri scored Big Arn's Predator, a famous score in its own right, and while Eraser is not as famous as Predator you should not rule out the integrity of the score. When separated from the movie it is still one of Silvestri's best efforts.I guess the only complaint I could have about Eraser is that it's kinda anti-climatic. The best scene occurs at the end of the second act, leaving the final act pale in comparison. There's no iconic imagery to the film and it seems kinda forgettable when compared to other Arn characters who have endured the test of time. Nonetheless, it's at the top of the bottom of Arn's best movies, but make sure the version you watch has not been butchered by the BBFC.The Blu Ray is in 2.40:1 1080p with Dolby TrueHD sound. Extras are non-existent.

Excelente película si te gusta el género y buen servicio de entrega.

please protect the item that almost got damage

John Kruger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) arbeitet für das Zeugenschutzprogramm. Seine Fähigkeiten: Leute beschützen, Spuren verwischen, Gegner auf verschiedenste Arten ins Jenseits befördern. Eines Tages bekommt er den Auftrag, auf Lee Cullen (Vanessa Lynn Williams), die für den Rüstungskonzert Cyrez tätig ist, aufzupassen. Sie hat Beweismaterial dafür gesammelt, dass von Cyrez hergestellte Railguns, die offiziell gar nicht existieren, an die russische Mafia verkauft werden sollen. Hinter diesem illegalen Geschäft stecken hochrangige Unternehmensmitarbeiter und sogar Staatsangestellte. Die wollen Lee natürlich am liebsten um die Ecke bringen, aber da hat John noch ein Wörtchen mitzureden.Eraser ist ein Actionfilm aus dem Jahr 1996, Regie führte Chuck Russell. Ab Mitte der 90er war Schwarzenegger nicht mehr nur in Action-Hochkarätern zu sehen, was Gurken wie Batman & Robin (1997) und End of Days (1999) unterstreichen. Eraser funktioniert noch nach dem altbewährten Prinzip: Arnie ist der unerschrockene Held, der im Akkord die Bösewichte ausradiert und immer einen Oneliner parat hat. Große Schauspielkunst ist dafür nicht nötig - zum Glück, denn ein guter Schauspieler war Schwarzenegger schließlich noch nie. Die Story ist nicht gerade komplex, irgendwie ist alles ziemlich vorhersehbar, dennoch funktioniert Eraser als das, was er eben ist: ein Actionfilm ohne Tiefgang. Dass er zudem eine Prise Selbstironie hat, ist durchaus sympathisch. Man kann Eraser also mal gesehen haben, ein Meisterwerk sollte man jedoch nicht erwarten.

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Gran película de acción al más puro estilo Arnold. El actor en sus mejores momentos. Merece la pena. Para quienes están interesados en semejante género