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.
60
Time Out London
Guy Lodge
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.
50
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
The film seldom pushes beyond the bare-minimum dictates of the thriller, only rarely offering up a memorable action sequence.
50
Village Voice
Chuck Wilson
A thriller whose storytelling ingredients are so familiar that one could watch it with the sound off and still know what's going on.