Eraser (1996)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1996
	Director: Chuck Russell (The Blob, The Mask, The Scorpion King)
	Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator, Predator), Vanessa Williams (Shaft), James Caan (Elf, Misery, The Godfather), James Coburn (The Great Escape)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 23.12.2016, VOD, 42" TV
Synopsis: John Kruger (Schwarzenegger) is a US Marshall helping people under witness protection program to relocate, and protecting them. He is assigned Lee Cullen (Williams) who just helped the FBI get information from a company that is suspected of selling arms to foreign countries.
Review: For me that last good Action movie by Schwarzenegger, released after James Cameron's True Lies and before End of Days, The 6th Day and the cursed Collateral Damage. Even though it was released after the Genre's golden period of the 80's, it contains all the ingredients for that: Arnie as irreproachable (and indestructible) cop, crooked partners, a conspiracy, a woman to protect, semi-futuristic weapons, and a bunch of bad guys henchmen around for arm twisting, neck breaking, throwing to crocodiles or just shoot at. Many death are by the way pretty brutal to loook at. This chase is just fun to look at although the characters and situations are sometimes (very) far-fetched, and the special effects in some scenes are too poorly done (the parachute and crocodiles scenes). But hey, one cannot ask too much from a movie in which our favorite Action hero at the top of his shape shoot at cars that go flying over his head while everything else around explodes as well. Action you wanted, Action you have.
Rating: 6 /10