VIDEO Eraser Arnold Schwarzenegger returns in the kind of wise-cracking role that has made him a millionaire actor despite never really having acted. Once again, the Austrian Oak's face barely shows any emotions as he blasts away at American agents and politicians gone bad.
Schwarzenegger plays John Kruger, an Eraser, a special agent with the Federal Witness Protection Programme. His job is to help witnesses by rubbing out their pasts and giving them new identities so they can start lives free from the threat of reprisals.
In real life that probably involves reams of paperwork and years of bureaucracy, but in Hollywood, it is akin to being 007.
Kruger can kill with his hands, his feet, his head and even his belt buckle. When we first meet him he is sorting out a group of low lives who are trying to terminate one of their members for blowing the whistle on some mafia bosses.
After saving the witness and his wife from a fiery death, Kruger is then assigned to erase the identity of Lee Cullen (Vanessa Williams), who has proof that a major arms manufacturer is about to sell the latest in hi-tech weaponry to a Russian arms dealer.
He soon discovers he is at the wrong end of a conspiracy: he is framed as a traitor and has to take on his department, the FBI and a mob of arms dealers.