Director: Chuck Russell
Year: 1996
Rating: 7.0
Ah, for the good old days of big fat summer action films that were so ridiculously over the top that you just had to go with it. This picked up $200 million internationally which was real money back in 1996. Arnold Schwarzenegger was making a few of those - Last Action Hero, True Lies and this one. I think they all made money. Audiences were more forgiving back then. I bet that his final words in this film "They caught a train" got cheers. The first Mission Impossible film had been released a month before and this one seemed to be trying to outdo it at every turn of the action. Put in Tom Cruise and this could have been MI2. Cruise would actually have done the stunts. Especially the one in the parachute shooting the front window of the plane heading towards him. A good cast with Arnold - Vanessa Williams, James Caan, James Coburn and Robert Pastorelli.
Arnold is an eraser. That means he works as a US Marshall and his duty is to erase people. No, not that way. He gives witnesses a new identity and deletes the old one. He takes his job seriously. When one of his witnesses is discovered by the mob and they send four killers to murder him and his wife, Arnold is there to take care of things. Meaning four dead mobsters. The guy he saves is played by Pastorelli. He was pretty popular at the time as the painter in Murphy Brown. He comes back later on in the film.
His next assignment is a tough one. Vanessa (the Undressa - remember that? - the NY Post) works for an arms manufacturer and has come across information that they are selling high-end weapons to terrorists. Hey, it's capitalism. She informs the FBI and is immediately a target. For the rest of the film. Some fun action scenes - the alligators being a favorite. And the final shootout at the dockyards is nuts as Arnold goes full Commando. And I always have to note a Tony Longo appearance. He plays the huge union guy at the end, Directed by Chuck Russell, The Scorpion King and weirdly, a Bollywood film titled Junglee.
Year: 1996
Rating: 7.0
Ah, for the good old days of big fat summer action films that were so ridiculously over the top that you just had to go with it. This picked up $200 million internationally which was real money back in 1996. Arnold Schwarzenegger was making a few of those - Last Action Hero, True Lies and this one. I think they all made money. Audiences were more forgiving back then. I bet that his final words in this film "They caught a train" got cheers. The first Mission Impossible film had been released a month before and this one seemed to be trying to outdo it at every turn of the action. Put in Tom Cruise and this could have been MI2. Cruise would actually have done the stunts. Especially the one in the parachute shooting the front window of the plane heading towards him. A good cast with Arnold - Vanessa Williams, James Caan, James Coburn and Robert Pastorelli.
Arnold is an eraser. That means he works as a US Marshall and his duty is to erase people. No, not that way. He gives witnesses a new identity and deletes the old one. He takes his job seriously. When one of his witnesses is discovered by the mob and they send four killers to murder him and his wife, Arnold is there to take care of things. Meaning four dead mobsters. The guy he saves is played by Pastorelli. He was pretty popular at the time as the painter in Murphy Brown. He comes back later on in the film.
His next assignment is a tough one. Vanessa (the Undressa - remember that? - the NY Post) works for an arms manufacturer and has come across information that they are selling high-end weapons to terrorists. Hey, it's capitalism. She informs the FBI and is immediately a target. For the rest of the film. Some fun action scenes - the alligators being a favorite. And the final shootout at the dockyards is nuts as Arnold goes full Commando. And I always have to note a Tony Longo appearance. He plays the huge union guy at the end, Directed by Chuck Russell, The Scorpion King and weirdly, a Bollywood film titled Junglee.