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...pitched this as The Defiant Ones only with lots of guns and cars and four-letter words. Keats (Wayans) is the undercover cop; Moses (Sandler), a member of a vicious drug gang, is the man in shackles. Together they're on the run from Moses' old gang lord (James Caan), who is so evil that his day job is selling used cars...
directed by Chuck Russell starring James Caan, Vanessa Williams and Arnold Schwarzenegger at area theaters...
After such abortive, rather eery attempts at career-broadening as "Junior," Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to his old habits, this time as "Eraser" Kruger, top agent for the witness protection program. Under his mentor in the agency (James Caan), Kruger efficiently "erases" the identity of errant stool-pigeons, until one day he finds out that, wouldn't you know it, someone has been killing the people he's helped disappear. Soon he's protecting one such potential witness/victim, Lee (Vanessa Williams), who knows a little too much about the machinations of a high-ranking U.S. government employee looking to sell...
...James Caan, as Kruger's mentor, ably reveals the cutthroat brutality that lies behind the merely serious face of top-secret government. Vanessa Williams, on the other hand, must play the thankless, Schwarzenegger equivalent of a "Bond girl," minus the glamour...
Williams is the damsel in distress; she gets to kick and shoot a few bad people, but at the climax, when she needs to pick up a gun, it slips through her fingers. (Girls--can't they do anything?) James Caan, as Arnold's boss, nicely gauges the power and menace of a G-man too long in the game; when he says the word patriotism, it sounds like "paid treason." Schwarzenegger, of course, is a paid tree trunk. And for the first time in a while, his character is as solid as he is. Welcome back...