Director John Pogue
Starring Dominic Sherwood, Jacky Lai & McKinley Belcher III
Rated MA
Score 0/6
U.S. Marshal Mason Pollard specializes in “erasing” people – faking the deaths of high-risk witnesses. With the technological advances of the last 25 years, the game has upgraded, and it’s just another day at the office when he’s assigned to Rina Kimura, a crime boss’ wife who’s decided to turn state’s evidence. As the two flee to Cape Town, South Africa, with a team of merciless assassins on their trail, Pollard discovers he’s been set up. Double-crossed and fueled by adrenaline, he needs to be at the top of his game, or he’ll be the one who’s erased. Permanently.
Okay, I get that it can be difficult to get a movie made, but sometimes when you’re making a reboot does not mean that you should, especially when your movie gives off vibes that it is following the same plot beats as the original movie. Eraser: Reborn has been sitting in the pile of movies that I have to watch for at least six months, I probably should have left in the pile a while longer. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate McKinley Belcher III for the unintentionally hilarious delivery of the line “There is no Line anymore. I erased it!”. I was willing to give the movie a fair shake up until that line of dialogue. It made me laugh so hard I cried, I paused the movie and replayed the line several times to bask in the dialogue’s stupidity and then things steadily got worse from there with computer effects that probably would have looked more at home being used in a production helmed by The Asylum. The movie did have some beautiful shots of Cape Town and .Rina Kimura (portrayed by Jacky Lai) did have a couple of good points about the importance of financial security. But that wasn’t enough to save this dumpster fire of a movie.