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Eraser [DVD] [1996] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

4.1 out of 5 stars 94 customer reviews

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  • Language: English, French
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (94 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 0790729601
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 49,937 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Eraser

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Format: DVD
This is a great movie but the UK version has just under FOUR minutes cut from it. This is frankly obscene and any Arnie fan should forgo the R2 version and shop in the US. The US version is violent to the brink of sadism, yet the UK release barely deserves its 15 certificate.
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Format: Blu-ray
The 2-year gap between True Lies and Eraser forced some action fans into thinking that Big Arn had retired. He had delivered at least one action movie per year since Terminator. Eraser had an awesome trailer, to the tune of Enigma's wonderful "I Love You, I'll Kill You", that rocked my world in the summer of 1996. I saw virtually every blockbuster that year, and the Eraser trailer was attached to every one of them. It came out out in the UK in the very last week of summer (and my first week back at school). I saw it at the now demolished UCI cinema in Edinburgh with a sold-out audience, mostly filled with guys out for a "lad's night". The movie was rated 18, and even though I was 3 years below that mark, I still got in, which was fortunate since the cinema version is the only uncut version of the film that has ever been released in the UK. For its VHS and DVD release the mad BBFC saw fit to cut 4 minutes from Eraser, turning it into an incomprehensible mess. It capped-off an awesome summer season (or so my 15-year-old self thought), and put to rest any fears that Big Arn was slowing down (although he has only made 5 action movies, to date, since then).

Arn is John Kruger (an amusing choice of name since director Chuck Russell also made the 3rd Nightmare on Elm Street Movie), a Witness Protection Program Agent who is tasked with 'erasing' and protecting a high-level informant who can prove that there are traitors within the US government who are selling weapons to Russian terrorists. Naturally the informant is the lovely, and wide-eyed, Vanessa Williams, who involves herself in a subdued romantic subplot with Kruger.
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By A Customer on 19 Sept. 2005
Format: DVD
Don't be fooled. I saw this and bought it, having fond memories of the action, explosions, big guns and cliches. The film itself is great, everything you'd expect from an Arnie blockbuster, but you don't get to see it all. What you're buying here is a heavily cut UK 15 certificate version of the film. I saw more of the action scenes last time it came onto the TV.
The running time for this version of the movie is 107 minutes. If you check on Amazon.com at the USA version, you'll find its 115 minutes.
Shouldn't there be a warning, something to say that, actually, what you're buying is only 93% of the film you thought you were buying?
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Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
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 un-cut 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 da 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
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Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
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.
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Format: DVD Verified Purchase
Although the film is not cropped, unlike "True Lies" this version, unlike the other has had 8 MINUTES cut from it.

Wish i'd bought the longer version, but why have 2 of them, 1 cut & 1 uncut with no indication of this on either of them.

NB the order number for the 115 mins uncut version is B00004RYLP
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By Steven TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 13 April 2014
Format: DVD
Even with the cuts this isn't a bad Arnie vehicle. As a US marshall specialising on witness relocation Arnie (John Kruger) is brought in to hide a company exec turned FBI whistleblower who has uncovered some dodgy dealings at the arms firm where she works. The movie dishes up all you would expect in terms of action and firefights and Williams is a particularly well drawn and sympathetic character rather than a lazy love interest. Arnie almost does some proper acting in this. This isn't an explosion extravaganza but there are a couple of particularly satisfying set pieces, an escape from an aircraft is quite tense and a crocodile infested shootout at the zoo is pretty cool althought the CGI isn't great at times. The ending delivers plenty of action alongside some high tech weaponry. You can compare various versions over at movie-censorship.com where it does a scene by scene compairson.
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