Eraser: Critic Reviews

Even for escapism, this is on the crazy side.

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

Good action fun, with spectacular stunts and special effects.

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.

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

The premise is moderately intriguing.

Welcome back, big guy.

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

Big-budget action filmmaking at its dullest.

As entertaining and solid as its leading man.

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.

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.

James Caan is good as the heavy, but the movie degenerates into routine comic-book mayhem.

...a minor addition to the Schwarzenegger oeuvre

Schwarzenegger delivers big action, big stunts and high-tech suspense, but Eraser ultimately fails to thrill.

Explosions, stunts, big guns, and Ah-nuld.

Second-rate Arnold, but entertainingly over-the-top.

I'm a Schwarzenegger fan, except for the comedies.