The Expatriate

Arash Amel's plot is a hodgepodge of threadbare motifs, liberally cut and pasted from every thriller you've seen.

Characters we genuinely care about are lost in a movie that almost dissipates before our very eyes.

"Erased" isn't actively bad, it's just doing something that has been done a whole lot better before.

'Frances Ha' is the most purely enjoyable and sweet-tempered movie the exceptionally talented Baumbach has made his nearly two decades as a director.

'Erased' is an entertaining enough action outing with plenty of well-done elements to recommend it.

Eckhart and Liberato may not act as if they're in Retread-land - Olga Kurylenko, meanwhile, as a CIA handler, barely acts at all - but this "Erased" is eminently forgettable.

Edge-of-your-seat, non-stop action, adventure and espionage keep Erased from being erased.

Generic and forgettable.

Those looking for an undemanding evening of real-world action beats could do a lot worse than Stölzl's run-around.

Without much effort, Stolzl's derivative papa-and-princess shoot to kill whodunit can be 'Erased' with the weak application of an elementary school No. 2 pencil.