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The Foreigner
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Steven Seagal, Harry Van Gorkum, Max Ryan, Jeffrey Pierce, Anna-Louise Plowman
Directed By: Michael Oblowitz
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404903807
Format: Anamorphic
ISBN: 1404903801
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2003-01-28
Running Time: 96
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Steven Seagal is Jon Cold a professional secret agent for hire who's as cunning as he is deadly. Enter his treacherous world and you might not come out alive. Political corruption murder and a bounty of backstabbing bad guys swarm around a mysterious package that Cold is hired to deliver from France to Germany. Some very dangerous people will stop at nothing to make sure that Cold doesn't get the package to its rightful recipient but they'll soon find out that getting in his way is a hazardous decision. Amid exotic locales and loads of explosive excitement THE FOREIGNER is a heart-pounding thriller from the king of action that'll keep you on the edge of your seat.System Requirements:Running Time: 96 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating:Â R UPC:Â 043396098626
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Summary: not quite Seagal's worst but close...
Comment: I've watched almost every Seagal film from Above the Law to his most recent direct-to-DVD film. The foreigner is one of three that I somehow missed along the way. The non-Seagal fan should immediately pass on this one. The plot is extremely simple. Seagal plays someone who is supposed to deliver a package. Between pick up and delivery then viewer is left wondering what the hell is this all about. The actions scenes are marginal at best. The fight scenes were OK but the producers messed them up by using the super slow motion and then speed up technique coupled with some awful music. I bumped this film up a star because it is slightly better than Seagal's worst films. He has produced some films in which the sound quality and/or his mumbling of lines is so bad that you have no clue as to what is being said. The filming of the scenes in the Foreigner was decent. I suppose the film somewhat kept my attention as it was filmed in Warsaw, so I was constantly looking for familiar landmarks. In any case true Seagal fans will probably suck it up and try to watch this one. Casual fans should do themselves a favor and skip to some of the more recent Seagal direct-to-DVDs which have gotten somewhat better.
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Summary: Good, off-style B movie
Comment: What can I say? This is one of those films that just has the right vibe and I really like it a lot. I can easily see why it's not a hit with the A film critics, but appreciation of B films is an art in and of itself.
Sometimes film makers try for an A film, and end up with a B. Some of those times it's a good B, sometimes a bad B. Other times film makers try for a B film, and it ends up bad or good, and occasionally makes it into the A ranks.
This is just a solid, fun B, with kind of a smooth flow to it. The acting is actually good, and the story, once you figure it all out, is rather interesting, but not great.
As with any action film, some things are exaggerated beyond belief, such as the small package bomb Cold uses at the train station which somehow manages to blow fireballs of equal size out of the entire front length of the station, and is something he wouldn't do anyway with that character, as he is portrayed as a man of ethics, in spite of his career choice.
So, it's fun, a little choppy, a little lacking, decent acting; another Seagal film that did not achieve its' full potential.
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Summary: Don't do it!
Comment: This is not the Seagal of the early nineties. Something has happened to him and it's not good. He's gained weight, does not move like before, and is hard to understand. The technical process is terrible. I will never buy another Seagal (I have 14 of the old ones) again and I think Amazon should seriously consider taking this off their site.
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Summary: Lord Steven AKA God
Comment: 'The Foreigner', along with 'Ticker', is just about the most hated Seagal flick by both the casual movie fan and the most devoted, dieheard Seagalogists. So, I went back and pulled it from my Seagal DVD collection and gave it a repeat viewing. I have come to decide that 'The Foreigner', while no where near the Lordly goodness of 'Belly Of The Beast' or 'Out For Justice', is much better than some of, in my opinion, Seagal's worst: 'Out Of Reach', 'Ticker', and 'Today You Die'.
The plot goes a little something like this: Lord Steven plays ex-CIA agent Johnathan Cold(by far the worst character name Seagal has ever had)who i guess is supposed to be in the same line of work as Jason Statham's character in 'The Transporter'. So the Lord is hired to deliver a package to some rich business tycoon, but of course is turned on by the people who hired him, the rich business tycoon's wife tries to steal the package, and there's other bad dudes out to get the package as well. Its all a little vague but if you don't concentrate too hard, you can ignore all the gaps in plot, and sorta kinda understand whats going on.
Anyways, the Lord is pretty sick looking in this film: he's tubby, his hair is nappy, and he has his arms crossed in front of his gut for approximately 80% of the film. There are a couple decent fight scenes, but the majority of them is obviously done by a stuntman who looks nothing like nor weighs nowhere near as much as Seagal. The only time the Lord appears during fight scenes is in close-up shots where it appears to be playing paddycake. Oh, and about a third of Seagal's dialogue is dubbed by someone who sounds nothing like him. But on the flipside, the cinematography is nice, the camera work is very well done, some very brutal shootings, and the acting is pretty good for the most part(especially by the black British guy who tortures Seagal near the beginning of the film; that guy is very good).
Overall, 'The Foreigner' is not a good film but its definitely not the Lord's worst. So I declare: it is not as deserving of the venom that films like 'Ticker' and 'Out Of Reach' deserve. Give it a second viewing and I don't think you'll hate it as much as you think you do. You won't love it, but you might realize, like I did, that it does have a few good points.
Oh, and as a little sidenote: Seagal's next flick, entitled 'Black Dawn', is a sequel to 'The Foreigner'. Go figure...he could have made a sequel to 'Under Seige' or 'Belly Of The Beast' or even brought back Gino Felino for 'Out For Justice 2' but he decides to bring back Johnathan Cold? Weird.
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Summary: What a load of rubbish
Comment: Hi my name is Lloyd Duff and I think this film needs to be thrown off a very high cliff. I like Steven Seagal and I am aware that he is in his 50's and cant do his karate like he used to. The story is he is suposed to deliver a package from Poland to go knows where for a rich dude. Most of the film is about his parnter going around pointlessy shooting people who have nothing to do with the movie. Was he mental? Why shoot the old porsche guy at berlin airport? yet help an old womon at the farm? Was he jeaulous of him? of his charming good looks? He could have just Drove away leaving the guy swearing in german and throwing his turino flatcap to to ground and screaming out "hoodlum" WHY MURDER HIM? He could have had money in his briefcase
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