Erased
RADiUS-TWC | Release Date: May 17, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Mixed:
9
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
67
The PlaylistMark ZhuravsyApr 6, 2013
Erased starts out strong...but for the rest of the running time, we are watching Ben catch up with us, and that makes for uninteresting cinema no matter how kinetic the action. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonGuy LodgeApr 29, 2013
Don’t tell Liam Neeson, but someone had the gall to make a violent Euro-thriller about a rampaging American dad without him. And not a bad one either. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMay 16, 2013
Depending on your age and memory, you’ll recognize cinematic DNA from everything from "Three Days of the Condor" to the "Taken" and "Bourne" franchises in this tale of a father and daughter on the run from an evil conspiracy. Read full review
50
Village VoiceChuck WilsonMay 14, 2013
A thriller whose storytelling ingredients are so familiar that one could watch it with the sound off and still know what's going on. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerMay 5, 2013
The film seldom pushes beyond the bare-minimum dictates of the thriller, only rarely offering up a memorable action sequence. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMay 19, 2013
The result: Characters we genuinely care about are lost in a movie that almost dissipates before our very eyes. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMay 16, 2013
Most people can only watch the same movie so many times. But Philipp Stölzl is clearly hopeful that when you’re done with “Taken” (and “Taken 2”), you’ll want more of the same. Should that be the case, this undistinguished but decent knockoff is ready to satisfy. Read full review
40
Time OutEric HynesMay 7, 2013
Eckhart’s status as the most likable too-handsome man this side of Chris Isaak will endure long after this film is erased from memory — which starts immediately. Read full review
40
The GuardianMike McCahillApr 6, 2013
This semi-efficient, Belgian-set timewaster fuses Taken with Unknown, and almost works. Read full review
40
Total FilmPaul BradshawApr 6, 2013
Eckhart makes a decent Damon stand-in, but there’s nothing here than hasn’t been done (better) before. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Michael PosnerMay 31, 2013
Erased, I predict, is a word that will be used to describe what happens to your memory of this cloned facsimile of a movie immediately after watching it. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMay 15, 2013
Erased is a snoozy, sputtering Euro chase flick—a sort of poor man’s Liam Neeson revenge movie. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMay 17, 2013
Erased is eminently forgettable. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMay 16, 2013
Viewed solely as a string of action sequences, Erased delivers the kind of dryly efficient, wearyingly familiar entertainment that already clogs too many of our movie screens. Read full review
25
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeMay 16, 2013
Eckhart’s another matter. He’s adequate, but there is something about his raspy voice and WASPy body language that’s more in tune with being the bad guy at the board meeting than the hero racing through the train station. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedMay 14, 2013
All we know is that the only sure way to avoid the loss of any more I.Q. points in the world today is to stay away from movies like Erased. Read full review
20
The TelegraphRobbie CollinApr 29, 2013
The film’s glib disregard for collateral murder runs to farcical extremes. Read full review
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