Most of Eraser consists of Schwarzenegger and Williams dodging bullets and bad guys, but director Chuck Russell doesn't put much effort into the action scenes: He simply points the camera and shoots.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 2, 2024

I think Eraser (1996), directed by Chuck Russell and co-starring James Caan and Vanessa Williams, is the first large-scale Schwarzenegger film that nobody cared about.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 19, 2023

Tree trunk he may be, but Mr. Schwarzenegger has grown new branches with green leaves in this smart action thriller, directed with panache by Charles Russell and written crisply by Tony Puryear and Walon Green.

| Jul 19, 2023

...delivers exactly what one might’ve anticipated (and hoped for) based on the premise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2022

A few of the set pieces are fussy or overly extended, but the rest is tolerable bone-crunching diversion.

| Jun 14, 2022

I know it sounds very predictable, but it's actually better than you expect and Vanessa makes it much more tolerable.

| May 31, 2022

Spectacle above all else. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 15, 2021

Defying the boundaries of realism - by walking a fine line between amusing and obnoxious - always seems easy for Arnold.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 11, 2020

Although Eraser offered the first signs that cinema audiences were no longer willing to swallow Arnie in any old action vehicle served up to them, there is still enough cheesy lowbrow moments to make this tale... deliver on the small screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2020

'90s Schwarzenegger action movie is extremely violent.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2018

The stunts, even show-stopping ones such as our man throwing himself out of a plane without a parachute and landing on a car without sustaining injury, have an air of desperation about them.

| Nov 27, 2017

Eraser is totally meaningless summertime entertainment, but it means something, I suppose, that it has been done so well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2017

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Welcome back, big guy.

| Aug 24, 2008

The advanced weaponry and nifty scopes notwithstanding, most of the gunplay is pretty standard-issue, with most of the victims being anonymous targets present just to be picked off.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2008

Big-budget action filmmaking at its dullest.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 24, 2008

As entertaining and solid as its leading man.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2008

It's the sort of plot you've seen so many times before that you forget exactly where you've seen it before, though you know it probably worked better then.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 30, 2007

It's a movie constructed around three or four self-consciously 'cool' episodes, and passably entertaining as such, but there's also an awful lot of uncool contrivance, coincidence and contempt for the audience.

| Jan 26, 2006