Eraser - 1996

It wasn’t bad! Watching it now and comparing with modern action movies, it wasn’t bad you know, it was a good movie.

John Kruger is an Eraser, he works for the FBI and protects witnesses, people who have to testify. He does it by ‘stopping’ all the killers and then making them disappear, giving these witnesses new identities. 

The movie opens with him saving a man and his wife, and his next job is a girl, Miss Lee Cullen, who went to the FBI with some burocracy and got involved in a big mess of people selling weapons outside of the national military, making it high treason. 

Lee made two copies of the disc she copied, one she kept for herself following the advice of a journalist friend who will be killed for it. Lee’s ex is killed as well, and she’s saved by John just in time. He gets her to a safe location, but then he finds out that the mole in thei department is his old friend and mentor Robert Deguerin. Robert kills an agent with John’s gun to make it look like John’s the mole, then he goes after Lee, but she received John’s brief message of alarm and disappeared, plus he warned her that he works alone, so when a man finds her and tells her that John sent him, she does what he told her to do and shoots him, injuring him enough to get away. John arrives and sets two crocodiles on the guys (but then he has to kill one crocodile himself because it wouldn’t let him go). They were at the zoo, of course. 

John phones his captain Beller to warn him about Robert but he needs proof because the captain doesn’t know who to believe, and John is the one running…

He asks for Johnnie’s help, the man he saved at the beginning who promised to repay him. He now works as a bartender in a drag queen club, and agrees right away. They manage to get inside her company to read the disc she copied, and they do it, but then they lose the disc, have to run and Robert kidnaps Lee. 

John and Johnnie go after them, this night there will be the big delivery of weapons to international mafia dealers. 

They shoot at him with a super rifle and only manage to injure him indirectly. But nothing will stop him. Of course.

Lee manages to free herself but can’t run far and Robert gets her again. John saves her. She also tried to help him. 

Robert is alive, though, and when the trial starts, he plans to make it look like he was the patriot who stopped the bad guys or something, and of course he still plans to kill Lee, the key witness. 

Bu John knows this, and instead, with Johnnie’s help, he locks them in their car and they’ll get killed in the crash with an incoming train.

The end for them and for the movie.

I liked this Lee character, very well done. No romance, greatly appreciated, but a hearty hu when they made it out alive. She was brave and smart, I liked her a lot. 

I also liked Johnnie enough, he kinda looked like Brignano :lol

Donahue was Lee’s direct boss, who shoots himself when he understands that the FBI is involved. 

Eraser - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Lee - Vanessa Williams

Deguerin - James Caan

Beller - James Coburn

Johnny C - Robert Pastorelli

Donahue - James Cromwell

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