Eraser (Action,Drama,Thriller)

He will erase your past to protect your future.
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John Kruger works for a branch of the Justice Department call Witness Security or Witsec, that's responsible for relocatibng and protecting witnesses. John's latest assignment is Lee Cullen, who works for a company that's a Defense Contractor, who is selling weapons to enemies of the U.S. When she agrees to get the evidence that the Feds need to take them down, she goes in and does it but was not told by the Feds that she was going to have a bullseye on her for the rest of her life. After refusing to be placed in Kruger's custody, some men attack her home but Kruger arrives just in time to save her and relocate. Later when several witnesses under Witsec are killed, Kruger accompanies another Witsec agent Deguerin to save a potential victim, when they get there, Deguerin shoots the killer but also kills the witness, and then plants a photo of Lee in the shooter's pocket. When Kruger sees the photo, Deguerin asks where she is, Kruger intially gives him a false location but while on the plane, Kruger sensing something's not right, calls her, which means that she is suppose to meet him somewhere. Kruger's drugged and when he awakens he discovers that Deguerin is not only working with the people who are trying to sell the weapons but has just framed him for killing another agent. Kruger escapes and gets to Lee in time but unfortunately, he is still a fugitive, so he must try and prove his innocence while trying to protect Lee.
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It helps to have a short attention span while watching ``Eraser,'' thenew Arnold Schwarzenegger picture. Consider, for example, a sequence late in thefilm, where Arnold is shot through the left shoulder. He grabs his shoulder andgrimaces. From the bullet's point of entry, we guess his shoulder bone is brokenand there is a lot of muscle damage. Immediately afterward, Arnold is in a fight to the death with thevillain (James Caan) on top of a shipping container that has been lifted high inthe air by a crane. The heroine (Vanessa Williams) is also on the container, andshe falls off. But Arnold is able to grab her out of the air. He holds her withhis right hand, and supports the weight of both of them with his left hand andarm. That's a neat trick after a bullet has shattered your shoulder. Butwait. If you think way back to the movie's second big action sequence, near thebeginning of the film, Arnold and Vanessa are the targets of a nail bomb, whichexplodes, driving a spike completely through Arnold's right hand--the one helater holds Williams with. A guy like that, he could play basketball on badankles for weeks. How does he do it? I guess he has plumb forgotten the spike through hishand. There have been a lot of distractions, like being attacked by alligatorsat the New York City Zoo, and falling out of an airplane without his parachute,and shooting at a Boeing 727 with a handgun. Arnold is amazingly serene underthis duress. After he shoots the alligator through the head, he tells it,``You're luggage!'' The plot of ``Eraser'' involves Vanessa Williams as Lee Cullen, anemployee of a defense contractor who stumbles across evidence that a secretcabal inside the U.S. government is illegally exporting advanced weaponssystems. In particular, they're selling the Rail Gun. What is a Rail Gun? Allowthe movie's director, Charles Russell, to explain: ``Rail guns arehyper-velocity weapons that shoot aluminum or clay rounds at just below thespeed of light.'' Uh huh. Just below the speed of light? Which is 186,282 miles a second?What happens to aluminum and clay rounds shot at that speed? They don'tpulverize or anything, do they? That muzzle velocity doesn't cause overheatingor anything, I suppose? At least there's no recoil when the bullets leave theguns at just below the speed of light. I know that because at one point Arnoldholds a Rail Gun in each hand (including the injured right one) and fires themsimultaneously. What is amazing is that Charles Russell wants us to believe theseguns are plausible. ``These guns,'' he elaborates in the press notes,``represent a whole new technology in weaponry that is still in its infancy,though a large-scale version exists in limited numbers on battleships and tanks.They have incredible range. They can pierce three-foot-thick cement walls andthen knock a canary off a tin can with absolute accuracy.'' If I read this correctly, he is talking here about the battleship model.My curiosity is awakened. To hell with the secret government plot--I want to seethe U.S. Navy shooting clay bullets at just beneath the speed of light throughthree-foot cement walls at canaries. And I want to stay for the credits: ``Nocanaries were harmed during the filming of this motion picture.'' But I digress. ``Eraser'' is actually good action fun, with spectacularstunts and special effects (I liked the sequence where Arnold shoots it out withthe Boeing 727) and high energy. Arnold plays his usual heroic character, an aceoperative in the federal Witness Protection Program, and Vanessa Williams is agood sport, running and jumping and fighting and shooting and kicking andscreaming and being tied to chairs and smuggling computer discs and lookinggreat. There is fun, too, when Arnold contacts an old friend named Johnny C(Robert Pastorelli) from the Witness Protection Program. Johnny is an ex-Mafiaguy, now working in a drag bar. When Arnold finds out the illegal arms are beingshipped from docks controlled by the union, Johnny goes to his uncle, Tony TwoToes, who looks unkindly on anybody moving anything through the docks withoutunion sanction. Soon Johnny, Tony Two Toes and other Mafioso are spying on aRussian ship that's being loaded. They have the following conversation: Tony Two Toes: Those dirty commies! Underling: They're not commies any more. They're a federation ofindependent liberated states. Tony: Don't make me hurt you, Mikey. ``Eraser'' is more or less what you expect, two hours of mindlessnonstop high-tech action, with preposterous situations, a body count in thedozens, and Arnold introducing a new trademark line of dialogue (it's supposedto be ``Trust me,'' but I think ``You're luggage'' will win on points). Thinkingback over the film, I can only praise the director's restraint in leaving outthe canary.Download here