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

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

| Jun 14, 2022

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

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

This is one of those movies where good guys don't miss, and bad guys can't shoot to save their lives.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2002

The bang-for-the-buck ratio is high enough to appease even the thinnest wallet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2002

Arnold Schwarzenegger tries his hardest to look formidable, forbidding and stern in Eraser, but what he mostly looks is tired.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 14, 2001

Good action fun, with spectacular stunts and special effects.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

We've seen Schwarzenegger do all this before, and in films superior to this passable but workmanlike effort.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

On the Schwarzenegger career curve, this is one step forward and two giant steps back.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Even for escapism, this is on the crazy side.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The middling result, diverting while it lasts but too silly to recommend, is merely this week's funhouse action pic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B | Jun 21, 1996