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List Price: $12.97 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 2601
Released: March 26, 1997 |
| Our Price: $3.00 |
| Used Price: $1.75 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Eraser, an elite federal marshal who "erases" the pasts of jeopardized informers and relocates them into safe anonymity.
Description of Eraser:
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
Eraser Reviews:
ERASER blu-ray review 
2008-09-07 - since nobody is gonna review the blu-ray version i will.well to say the least this is a very clean transfer.by no means reference quality.but a nice clean transfer.if you are a fan of this movie you will be thrilled.the dolby true hd is where this blu-ray really shines.once again not reference quality but very satisfying.if you had the dvd this soundtrack blows it away.the only thing to note is when you pop this movie in, the movie starts right away so to get the dolby true hd soundtrack you have to go into the menu and change it because it uses the standard dolby digital 5.1 by default.which i thought was kinda weird but oh well.so if you like this movie get it!15.00 you cant lose!
Not my favourite 
2008-09-04 - There's just something about Arnie movies that always grabs me, and makes me want to watch them. I've seen a few that definitely haven't been my favourites, and Eraser is one of them. I feel the more that I see films of Arnie's that I haven't seen before, the more I love the ones I've seen loads of times - Terminator, Twins, True Lies etc.
The storyline is in no means OTT. It doesn't have the intriguing aspect of Total Recall for example. Arnie plays John Kruger, who specialises in 'erasing' people in the Witness Protection Programme. The film opens showing exactly how he does this, which is quite interesting.
But then Vannessa Williams (Lee Cullen) comes into it, and really, she just didn't work. There was no chemistry between her and Arnie whatsoever. I don't particularly want them to start ripping each other's clothes off, but there was nothing between them at all. And in my opinion, it's always off-putting when that happens.
The story then continues with John trying to keep Lee out of danger, and keep himself out of danger himself. There's one totally ridiculous scene, where John is hanging from a plane door, about to directly fall into the path of the plane engine, which just so happens to be on fire! His parachute then gets ripped off, and he has to free fall after it, and also has to worry about the plane preferably not crashing into him. It's a totally unbelievable scene, and definitely the highlight of the movie. But better done in Point Break I have to say. The alligator scenes also had me barely breathing, as they were amazing!
I just don't think Eraser holds up with some of Arnie's other movies. The last movie I saw was Total Recall, and while I didn't understand it, and it left me racking what little brains I have, I still remember most of it. Eraser just comes across as a throw away movie, which is forgettable, and not that special up against his other movies.
Ahhhnold 
2008-09-02 - Probably one of his better, later movies....i enjoyed every minute of action. Bare bones release but the price is cheap for Blu-Ray.
Eraser - Blu-ray Info 
2008-08-27 - VC-1 BD-25 Single layered Blu-ray disc
Running time: 1:54:31
Movie size: 21,632,907,264 bytes
Disc size: 21,969,097,832 bytes
Average video bit rate: 14.90 Mbps
Dolby TrueHD Audio English 1773 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1773kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio English 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio French 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio French 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio German 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Italian 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Japanese 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Portuguese 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Subtitles: English / Chinese / Danish / Finnish / French / German / Italian / Japanese / Korean / Norwegian / Portuguese / Spanish / Swedish
Number of chapters: 44
Extras: Zero
Eraser
2008-07-17 - I've seen this movie three times and am still on the edge of my seat. I thought the acting was quite good.
