Eraser

7:00 PM


Another reasonably standard Arnie actioner. It's pretty good, and only let down slightly by some dodgy CG croc's in the zoo sequence. I suppose they were pretty advanced for the time, but they don't look very real. Otherwise, there's some good action sequences, and some humor. Recommended if your passing it in the cheapie bin, or just an Ahnuld fan.

Plot Synopsis:

Special Agent John Kruger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is assigned to make people disappear for the witness protection program. Mobsters have broken into an informants home and are terrorising them when Kruger arrives and deals to them. He then fakes the informants death, and helps the couple to disappear. The cops arrive to find the home ablaze.

Back at the Justice Building, John changes the couples fingerprints and dental records to match the corpses he substituted them for in the house fire. John's workmate Robert Deguerin (James Caan) comes to speak to him. John gets assigned a new witness to protect; Lee Cullen (Vanessa Williams) to protect. She worked for a Defence Contractor, Cyrez, and has uncovered some illegal dealings.

The FBI watch as Lee goes to collect evidence from her employers. She goes into the security vault to copy the data from the secure server. While there she makes two copies of the data. As she's leaving, security ask her to report to the director's office. He confronts her about copying the data. The director discovers the camera Lee is carrying, pulls a gun on her, but turns it on himself committing suicide. During the ensuing confusion, Lee manages to escape to the FBI.

Kruger meets with Lee to explain her new identity, and she refuses to give up her life, and goes home. The FBI check the data disc into evidence, and the clerk takes the disc and gives it to someone else. Lee arrives home and checks the second disc, but finds she is unable to run the program because it must be used on the secure corporate server. The disc's program alerts security officers at the company. She calls her friend at a newspaper and lets her know what's happened.

Some men arrive and murder the FBI watching Lee's house. They then start shooting at Lee using a high-tech railgun from Cyrez. Kruger arrives to protect Lee as the shooting starts. They dodge the shots, until John is forced to improvise a trap destroying her house so they can escape. John offers to hide her until the hearings.

Higher up, politicians connected to Cyrez are starting to panic. Orders are given to clean up the mess. John takes Lee to stay with a person in China Town. He tells her he works alone, so if anyone comes looking for her on his behalf, shoot them.

John meets with Robert who tells him someone has been murdering their suspects, and they suspect a mole in Witness Protection. He tells them they have to go meet their witnesses face to face. They go to check in on Alice, a witness of Roberts. A gunfight breaks out, and Robert kills Alice. He fakes giving her mouth-to-mouth when the other agents come in. He then cuts off her air. He plants evidence on the man near Alice's body - a photo of Lee. Robert asks John where she is, and John tells him Atlanta.

Back on the plane, en-route to Atlanta, Robert drugs John. John realises he's been drugged, but manages to text his warning code to Lee. They intercept the cell phone call and divert the plane to New York. When John awakens, Robert has murdered another agent and framed him. John pulls a concealed knife, and stabs Robert. He then grabs and parachute and escapes out the plane door. Unfortunately he drops the chute, and is forced to sky dive after it. He gets it, puts it on, and opens it. Robert has the plane turned around and tries to ram John. He becomes entangled in his chute, but manages to free himself and open the reserve. It opens a little too late though, and he slams into a wrecked car in a junkyard.

Robert lands and figures that John would have sent Lee to the New York Zoo. He sends his team of hitmen there. Meanwhile, John is on his way to New York in an acquired tow truck. One of the men finds Lee at the zoo, and tells her John sent her. She shoots him and runs off. The other men search for her and eventually pursue her into the reptile house. John arrives crashing the tow truck through the zoo gates. John shoots out the glass on the alligator exhibit, freeing the creatures. They start attacking the hitmen.

John and Lee hide out in a church. John makes contact with his captain and explains what's going on. He tells him he'll make contact again when he has proof. Lee shows John the second disc she made, but explains they can't use it outside of the Cyrez building. John goes to ask for help from the mob informant he rescued at the beginning.

Johnny agrees to help them. Robert is already watching Cyrez with his men. Johnny arrives disguised as a pizza delivery man. He fakes a heart attack to get into the building infirmary. John and Lee arrive disguised as paramedics. The Cyrez security team detect John accessing the disc but can't understand how he isn't running it from the server room. One of the technicians suggests he must be running it from a terminal in the building. They try to locate the terminal through the network. John discovers the Russian Mafia are buying the railgun weapons that day at midnight. The technicians finally track John to the Director's office. The security team burst in shooting. Robert grabs Lee as they try to escape.

Johnny goes with John to the Baltimore docks to stop the arms sale. His cousin Tony runs the docks and can help them find the ship the weapons are going on. They enlist the help of Tony and his mob crew. John contacts his boss and tells him where the arms deal is going to happen.

The mob guys create a diversion while John sneaks onto the docks. Hitmen armed with the railguns start sniping at John. He manages to get one of the weapons away from them, and starts using it against them. He disrupts the arms sale, and ends up fighting with Robert atop one of the shipping containers. Lee escapes from the Russian mob guy that is holding her aboard the ship. The wiseguys start shooting at the Russian mob guys. Robert is bought in by John, but looks like he might escape justice. John is cleared, and fakes Lee and his death in an explosion outside the courthouse. He then erases Robert and the corrupt Senator by arranging to have Johnny leave their limo on the train tracks. Their car is destroyed by an oncoming freight train.

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