ERASER (BLU-RAY) - VARIOUS

is a 1996 American action film directed by Chuck Russell and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams, James Caan, James Coburn, and Robert Pastorelli. The film follows a U.S. Marshal of WITSEC who protects a senior operative testifying about an illegal arms deal and is forced to fight his former allies when one of the players is revealed to be a mole inside WITSEC.Eraser premiered in Hollywood on June 11, 1996, was released in the rest of the United States on June 21, 1996, and was a commercial success, grossing over $242 million against a budget of $100 million. It received mixed reviews from critics, but they praised Williams and Schwarzenegger's performances, the action sequences and the visual effects. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing in 1997. It was also one of the first major films released on DVD, being part of the Japanese launch lineup of Warner Home Video's debut of the format on December 20, 1996.I had the pleasure to catch a much underrated Schwarzenegger film at the Cinema in 96 and brought the DVD version which to me was the UK cut having finally seen the USA blu ray disc which is the far superior version and is much better to view without the poor editing due to the BBFC cuts

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A good film which shows some of the other duties of US Marshalls. Good to watch with the Fugitive and US Marshalls if you want a trio of films to watch in one go. I think the effects have dated well.

As per usual with Arnie a fair bit of punch and shooting but I think the story is possibly believable.In honesty it is 90+ mins of enjoyment and just trying to guess the cost of what gets destroyed. But it is well made.

Great film but not widescreen.Really good movie when Arnold was at his best.But why such a poor quality stream.

Director Chuck Russell delivers 1990's action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger in this 1996 action which was released on Blu-Ray in 2008. This follows the usual plot for a film of this vintage in fact for a Schwarzenegger vehicle the violence has been toned down from his previous outings but there is enough here for the fans to enjoy and the get their teeth into as U.S. Marshal John Kruger played by Arnold Schwarzenegger "erases" people's old lives so they can enter the Witness Protection Program.The up-grade from DVD to Blu-ray is worth it as long as you can get the disc cheap enough and the Blu-ray is the full uncut version of the movie 115 minutes not the cut version that appeared on the DVD.This region free 25GB disc is encoded using the VC-1 codec which is in full 1080p resolution the aspect ratio has been changed from the original 2.39.1 to 2.40.1 this has no affect on the picture quality at all, the soundtrack has not been up-graded to English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 there also English, French and Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks as well along with French, Spanish, Chinese, Danish, Finnish, German, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese and Swedish subtitles there also English subtitles for the hard of hearing

If like me you are a fan of this film DO NOT buy the Region 2 version. I saw this at the cinema on release (where it was an 18 certificate) and loved it. I waited with baited breath for the video release (back in 1996) and to my horror it was heavily cut (by a staggering 3m 22s) to achieve a 15 certificate.The torture scene at the beginning, the scene at the witnesses cabin, the zoo scene and a few more were all ruined by obvious cuts that ruined the movie completely.Its long been a gripe of mine that films are cut after their cinema release but thanks to the wonder of region free Blu Ray i have managed to buy this as well as Face Off, Under Siege 1 & 2 & The Matrix (all of which are cut on R2) as they were intended to be seen.