pickerdad This movie fails in the first 10 minutes. I switched it off immediately. We see a man (presumably the protagonist) and his assistant in a high-tech lab presenting their investigation into a number of CIA-created super-security devices which they use to keep America safe. He demonstrates they all have fatal flaws and that his team were able to defeat all of them, using some scientific tools and techniques. None of these are even remotely credible, as any engineer or scientist would attest, but OK, suspend disbelief. Then he reveals privately to the head of the CIA team that all of the devices are at risk BECAUSE NO PATENTS HAVE BEEN REGISTERED.Does not a single person associated with the movie know what a Patent is? To register a patent, you must publish a detailed explanation of the device to show that it is unique, and that it is based on original work. Not only does it not keep the invention secret, it actually publishes exactly what it is and how it works, IT GUARANTEES THAT THE WORK IS EXPLAINED IN DETAIL TO ANYONE IN THE WORLD WHO ASKS FOR A COPY.A patent only protects an invention commercially. If someone else claims the same invention as their own and tries to sell devices using the patented design or process, the patent owner can force them to stop production, and also sue for damages. The very countries that the CIA would want to stop, China Russia, North Korea and so on, are immune from patent claims because they simply do not acknowledge the authority of the US Patent office, or any US Laws.To keep an invention secret, one has to do exactly that, tell no one how it works, even those who are manufacturing it. And definitely NOT Patent it.

vostf I just realized that direct-to-video no longer means much nowadays, but well it used to mean a movie made on the cheap. Actually Erased, aka The Expatriate is pretty well-made technically: camera work, editing and Aaron Eckart are pretty fine. But both titles sound like a cheap movie and the script is cheap indeed. It is all about a boilerplate conspiracy chase with action every other reel and bits of exposition in between. So instead of feeling fast-paced it feels shaky, all the more so as the conspiracy is lame and the daughter character is very weak.

Davis P Erased was completely bland and without any substance, this movie was incredibly boring and was honestly a drudgery to get through. I honestly did not even want to finish this film. The acting was just sub par and mediocre, nothing at all to brag about. All the characters were very annoying as well, especially the daughter. The dialogue and script are very poor and just boring, not interesting or engaging at all. The movie has nothing going for it, I mean nothing, not the writing, not the actors, not the characters, not the action, not ANYTHING. This movie was really just a waste of 2 hours. This film was very overly long too, the runtime needed to be much shorter. Shorter as in 0 hours and 0 minutes lol. This movie really didn't need to be made. 1/10 for Erased.

jaycravns Very rarely will I not watch the whole film. The daughter is such an awful and not enjoyable nag i couldn't take it anymore. i made it 28 min before i wanted to kill her. She ruined the whole movie that had great potential. Everything she says, does...ANYTHING! i hated that ladys part SOO much by almost the half hour marker, seriously, i had to shut it down. I'll never watch another film with that wretch ever again. Pad my comment. really IMDb? You aren't going to get this review more than likely and never again will i attempt to give you one.IMDb = Eckharts daughter in this movie. One track minds? Selfish...the girls voice is even that terrible it made my skin crawl hearing the waste of overdramatic space breathe in and then expel good air, that non-douchebag actors could have had. PS. F#$k OFF IMDb :-)