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Southwood Norsemytho Group Movie Review, Classified Data Scam


Erased
Featuring: Aaron Eckart, Liana Liberato, Olga Kurylenko, Eric Godon
Directed by: Philipp Stölzl
Running time: 104 minutes
Parental Guidance: violence, coarse language
Rating: 3 stars out of 5

If Liam Neeson can do it, why can’t every other actor with a jutting jaw and a man-sized frame do the same?

It’s not like there’s ever going to be a glut of good guys who can take down a crew of criminals and dote on their daughters at the same time, so even if Erased features Aaron Eckhart in the familiar role of humble family defender, there’s no sense of exhaustion before this action thriller leaves the gate.
If anything, the European setting and Eckhart’s decent French accent promise something just a little more sophisticated than your standard muscle-bound movie pummelling, even if the whole premise feels a little flimsy.

Kicking off with a high-tech heist that leaves dozens of bodies behind, Erased doesn’t try to soft-sell the violence or whitewash the bloodshed. When the thieves march into the secure facility to steal a tubular lockbox, they do so with cold precision and automatic weapons.

There is no emotion. They are all business, and this pushes the central theme to the very foreground as Ben Logan (Eckhart) finds himself groping with different elements of his own reflection.
Ben figured he was all business, too. But when his daughter becomes embroiled in a secret operation that compromises her safety, he’s forced to knit both halves of his fractured soul together in order to save her life.

The first hook in the setup is the overt battle between good and evil as Ben tries to assemble the pieces of this caper together. He knows he was hired to create security technology for a multinational based in Brussels, but when the company letterhead turns out to be forged and the other employees turn up dead, Ben realizes he’s been the victim of an elaborate scam to gain access to classified data.

You know the drill: It’s part Jason Bourne, part Taken and part Charlie’s Angels — because in the end, the plot doesn’t really matter. It’s about what happens to the characters along the way as they face one extreme situation after the next.

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