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disgusting, overrated, pointless

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

If you like action thriller adventure I will recommend this to you, but its a little hard to follow. Steve Seagal is a total bad ass but its hard to hear him cause he never talks loud in it also he only makes that one face the whole time. The action was cool butt I fell asleep close to the end so i don't really know how it ended also it was hard to tell what was going on like important parts seemed like they were missing. I still watched it cause i really like steve seagal and like to watch all his movies by him but i wouldn't recommend it unless you really like his movies. this one is good, but its not one of his best ones.

Seagal looks grossly overweight and arthritic to boot. The direction is comically choppy, inept, and clichéd. The script is a semi-coherent agglomeration of clichés.Even the sound editing is incompetently done. In one scene Seagal's knife manages to make a locked-open clicking sound while it's still only about half open.In short, it's difficult to find ANYTHING that's properly done in this movie.My two star rating is strictly a tribute to the entertainment afforded by the campy ineptitude of this movie, not any merit one might attribute to a movie in the conventional sense.

Jonathan Cold (Seagal)...is a guy named Jonathan Cold. He's also a former "deep cover operative" (whatever that means) and at the moment is living in Paris. Because he's American, perhaps that makes him "the foreigner"(?) but now he has been entrusted to deliver a certain very valuable package from France to Germany. He doesn't know what's in the package, but he does know that a man named Dunoir (Ryan) has been tasked to assist him, and the person he's delivering it to is wealthy industrialist Jerome Van Aken (Harry Van Gorkum...or is it Jerome Van Aken as Harry Van Gorkum...not really sure). Along the way, Cold finds out that a lot of baddies and goons want to try to stop him from delivering the package, including Mimms (Augustus). So Cold deals with them the only way he knows how, i.e., coldly. Just slightly more aggressive than giving them the cold shoulder. When Dunoir turns out to not be all that he says he is, Cold turns to his brother Sean Cold (Pierce) for help, but not before going to the funeral of their deceased father Jackson Cold. Will the package be revealed? Will it get into the right hands? It truly becomes a "Cold War" as Jonathan attempts to complete his mission. Will he succeed? What's good about The Foreigner is that it looks more professional than a lot of Segal's other DTV work of late. Maybe that's because there was talk of this going to the movie theater. Regardless, there is more style to this outing than usual. And the fact that it was actually shot in Germany and Poland, as opposed to Bulgaria, really does make a difference and helps to convey a classier look. But, to be realistic, this movie is basically a poor man's The Transporter (2002). Not to be cruel, but if you've ever thought that watching Jason Statham is a bit too exhausting because he's so active and in shape, we think we've found the movie for you.It hurts to overly criticize this particular Seagal romp. Because you can tell they were at least trying this time around to imbue the film with some sort of style and quality. Director Oblowitz also made Out For A Kill that same year, 2003, with Seagal. Maybe he couldn't get enough of his winning charm. But then again, they haven't worked together since. Oblowitz includes some things that fans have seen before, such as an all-important "disc" (which seems to pop up a lot), and plenty of 90's-style techno music on the soundtrack. But, believe it or not, the plot is actually overly convoluted and even slow at times. Had the movie only been shorter in length, and, please forgive the pun, had some of the fat trimmed from it, The Foreigner could have ranked pretty darn high in the Seagal standings. But once you see the silly quick-cutting effects during the fight scenes, that kind of dooms the movie.Not that there aren't some worthwhile moments: The age difference between the supposed "brothers" Jon and Sean Cold is amusing - Jonathan could be Sean's father. The movie overall could have used more Sean Cold (or "Seanathan", as we called him) - the actor who played him, Jeffrey Pierce, was engaging, and the plot thread connecting the brothers wasn't really expounded upon too much. Maybe Seagal worried about being upstaged. Plus there is dialogue such as Van Aken saying "Eliminate Cold", and Seagal talking about his old buddy Delbert, which we think he also did in Fire Down Below (1997), but can't quite remember.There are certainly worse Seagals out there - at this point in his career he'd yet to sink to the utter depths of the execrable Kill Switch (2008) - but it all depends on your tolerance for his output. He sure has a "love him or hate him"-style fanbase, and we try to take him movie by movie, but we feel we know him almost, we've been following his career for so long. A Seagal action movie is just that, a Seagal action movie. This one in particular is largely kept afloat by the cinematography. It's by far the best part of the film. If you try to imagine these same proceedings, but not shot as well, the results are not great. So in the end, it's kind of mid-range Seagal, aspiring for better, but probably will only appeal to his fans.

*MINOR SPOILERS* How in the world was this ever conceived, let alone be considered for a theatrical run?! Yes. It is true. Seagal's star was staring to wane, but after Segal made a brief comeback with Exit Wounds, Seagal had a chance to become a top action star again; well. He blew it big time with Half Past Dead, and they decided to send this movie straight to video; smart choice geniuses! I'm actually a fan of Steven Seagal when he's motivated, and that is very rare these days. The movie looks and feels incredibly cheap; despite that it had a healthy budget of around $16,000,000 it takes place in Warsaw Poland, and the atmosphere feels absolutely miserable. It's dull as dishwater to watch, since there isn't much action to speak of until the end and when it happens, most of it is in slow motion with very poor editing. It came off incredibly corny. It also tries to throw in a half-assed subplot with a Mother & Daughter to no avail. Not convinced on how bad this is yet? I'll continue. There is a scene where Steven Seagal is forced at gun point, and he and a villain head to the bathroom with a package. The package explodes while Steven Seagal is relieving (peeing) himself in a urinal Seagal manages to hurl himself threw a glass window with fire from the explosion engulfing him, and he escapes completely unscathed (!) Steven Seagal is god awful here. He is completely out of shape, and has a baggy trench coat on to hide all the flab in his gut. Not only is his voice dubbed on occasion, but he is blatantly annoyed about the whole thing, with a look on his face that screams "Let's get this over and done with!" Seagal has never been great at emotion, but at least he had solid intensity. He shows off emotion here with plenty of inconsequential mumbling. He was sleepwalking here, and was very lazy to boot by doing minimal fighting scenes; I don't blame him for being unhappy with this film, but show some professionalism! Max Ryan is way too OTT as the villain. He has a cigarette dangling from his mouth in every scene! He was extremely annoying. Anna-Louise Plowman is pretty to look at, but that's it. The film didn't do enough to make me care about her, or her daughter. Note: I couldn't resist adding some memorable cheesy linesMeredith (Anna-Louise Plowman): May I ask Who's Calling? Jonathan Cold (Steven Seagal): No thanks. I'll call back laterJonathan Cold: I'd say the only thing unexpected is that I'm still aliveJonathan Cold: You kinda look like Ray Charles (referring to Mr. Mimms Sherman Augustus) then again… Ray probably can't shoot as good as you, right?Final Thoughts: Seagal has done many terrible DTV films over the years, and this is undoubtedly one of the worst. It's not as bad as Attack Force or a couple others, but it's still abominably bad. Even if you're a die hard Seagal fan, I can't on good conscience, recommend this to you. It has very little action, and you'll most likely be bored to tears. Stay away!1/10