Erased Film Review

Aka - Expatriate

This had potential but it just irritated me more and more as it went on. I couldn't wait till I got to the end and could say goodnight and goodbye. It probably seemed like a great idea to have a man on the run from professional killers and he has to bring his daughter along to keep her safe, but she almost singlehandedly makes the film close to unbearable. Not necessarily because of the actress but because of the role. It is a preposterous plot that I am still confused about. Only one of those paranoid conspiracy nuts on social media would believe it. Of, course there are a lot of those.

Ben Logan (Aaron Eckhart) has moved to Belgium to work for a corporation that deals with security. His job is to find ways past it and is pretty good at it. His 16-year daughter (Liana Liberato) lives with him after the mother died and there is the usual father-daughter teenage friction. By the end of the film, you basically wish they had killed her earlier on. Whine, whine, whine. Logan notices something that doesn't look right with a patent one day and mentions it to the boss. Oops. That sets off a series of murders of many of the employees.

Logan escapes with his daughter when they come for him and goes on the run. And he has been magically deleted from every data base in the world and his place of employment is packed up and gone. They keep trying to kill him, his daughter keeps whining - "I had friends" - and giving him shit as he saves their lives with quick thinking and a few suspiciously competent kills. "You killed him daddy!" "Well, you see he was trying to kill us". As the film goes along you have to wonder how this engineer can keep outsmarting the professional killers. Oh, CIA in a past life. Oh, in the Kill Squad. Well of all the bad luck for the killers. Olga Kurylenko is an old flame in the CIA. As he points a gun at her head in once scene, I thought they were going to have sex. "What is she to you daddy!" as bullets fly around them the daughter whines. Oh, shut up.