Eraser (1996)

There is just something viscerally satisfying in seeing Vanessa Williams, successfully removing her hands from a chair handle binding, breaking a coffee glass over a scumbag weapons dealer as well as Arnold calling up James Caan's betraying mentor in the US Marshals Witsec program while he is stuck in a limo with two other government bureaucratic trash suits telling him on the phone, "You have just been erased." This after a swaggering, confident Caan tells his cohorts that he'll just murder Williams' whole family and friends before they tell the truth about manufactured and sold (but never taken out of the docks) electromagnetic weapons. "They caught a train." So, so satisfying.

Anyway, the ridiculous plane sequence where Arnold avoids a wrecked engine on fire, is able to avoid it flying right towards him by firing off a gun, and is able to unwrap himself from his suffocating chute, only to open another before landing on an abandoned car in a junkyard and how he also avoids getting munched on by an alligator, later remarking after shooting it, "You're luggage." This is all the kind of action movie nonsense held over from the 80s. But Williams is a superior actress for a film like this, really classing up the place while Arnold spends a lot of time narrowly avoiding a city-wide manhunt and Caan's litany of officers/men equipped with the very weapons that can send out an "echoing laser" and are capable of X-Ray seeing through buildings for human targets.

I just went along for the ride on this one. Colburn as Arnold and Caan's superior in Washington is just a treat even if the role is to give orders and determine which of the two is the mole responsible for killing off those who might bring down the weapons dealers/sellers. But Pastrorelli as the Witsec beneficiary nearly killed, and rescued by Arnold, at the beginning, steals the film, in my opinion. His pizza / seizure / ER scene (and when reconnecting with his family who runs the docs, like "Tony Two Toes" and "Little Mike") is priceless. But this is still an Arnold movie, so expect more True Lies heroism insanity.