Amazon.com video review:
If you're going to submit yourself to a dazzling example of
mainstream action, this thriller is as good a choice as
any. Eraser is a live-action cartoon, the kind of movie in
which Arnold Schwarzenegger can survive nail bombs, hails of bullets,
an attack by voracious alligators ("You're luggage," he
says, after killing one of the beasts), and still emerge from the
mayhem relatively intact. Arnold plays an "eraser" from the
Federal Witness Protection Program, so named because he can virtually
erase the existence of anyone he's been assigned to protect. His
latest beneficiary is an FBI employee (Vanessa Williams) who stumbled
across a secret government group involved in the sale and export of an
advanced weapon capable of shooting rounds at nearly the speed of
light. Fantastic action sequences are handled with flair by director
Charles Russell (The
Mask), so it's easy to forgive the fact that this movie is
almost completely ridiculous. --Jeff Shannon
