Film Review – Erased

After playing second fiddle to Gerard Butler in last month’s “Olympus
Has Fallen,” it’s about time star Aaron Eckhart proved himself in the
action arena. It’s only a shame “Erased,” as nondescript a title as can
be, doesn’t reveal much ingenuity in the stale genre, electing to reheat
plot elements and violent encounters viewed in other, better films.
Eckhart commits to the material like a professional, but his feverish
investment in Arash Amel’s repetitive script and Philipp Stolzl’s
pedestrian direction is wasted, with “Erased” struggling to come across
exciting when it’s really just painfully average, resembling a sleepy
version of “The Bourne Identity.”
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