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...Wednesday released documents in which a former security official claims that some White House employees had used crack, cocaine and hallucinogens before starting their jobs in 1993. The Secret Service denied them passes, the official said, only to be promptly overruled by the Administration. According to an FBI transcript, Arnold Cole, a former supervisor of the Secret Service White House control operations, said the Service was concerned drug use could compromise White House Security. At first, Cole said, he denied passes to employees who had used drugs, some of them shortly before the checks. But after the White House instituted...
What made "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Predator" quirky and interesting was the presence of a character perhaps more invincible than Arnold himself. Here, Arnold busily spends his time getting impaled, bursting out of floors, and burning enough houses to make an insurance company weep...
Development of the appealing premise--the challenge of making someone invisible--is squandered in favor of a standard corrupt-government/secret-weapon story. In fact, the movie is often most interesting when we get a glimpse of the underground world Arnold has created, as he goes around collecting favors from the people he has helped disappear...
...surprising, then, that many of the highlights in the movie ironically come from the comedy provided by Robert Pastorelli as Johnny C., a witness Arnold has saved and who insists upon helping him out. Best-known for his role as Eldin or "that painter guy" on "Murphy Brown," Pastorelli plays the highly-principled ex-gangster Johnny C. with quality humor that is a far cry from the cutesy punch-lines of most action films. Calling upon hilarious motley trio of relatives and friends to help Arnie out, Pastorelli offers amusing false bravado as a welcome alternative to Arnold's superstar...
...makers of "Eraser" have themselves done a bad job of erasing: instead of assuming a new, exciting action identity, Schwarzenegger returns to standard shoot-'em-up mode, which seems staler now than in earlier films. If you want a good action movie, sure, see "Eraser"; if you want vintage Arnold, better make a visit to your video store...