Anna-Louise Plowman, Harry Van Gorkum, Kate Fischer

There must be an audience for Steven Seagal movies, but it's hard to imagine who would actually want to watch a movie like The Foreigner. Seagal, bloated and puffy-faced, plays a super...( read more  read more... )-professional operative of some kind, who on this occasion is supposed to deliver a package from someone (it doesn't matter who) to a super-rich industrialist. The industrialist's beautiful blond wife tries to intercept it, Seagal prevents this, then decides to help her out, and lots and lots of people get killed in impractical and implausible ways. Almost every scene is so full of "mysterious" dialogue as to be incomprehensible. The Foreigner tries to create a veil of cool action attitude to disguise the lack of cool and the lack of action. Seagal mumbles. Seagal frowns. No one shoots Seagal, despite numerous opportunities to do so and no reason not to. Why was this movie made? --Bret Fetzer

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R, 96 min.

Directed by: Michael Oblowitz

Release Date: January 1, 2003

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DVD Release Date: January 28, 2003

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  • April 20, 2008
    Seagal was beyond it at this point (and still is) but this was actually a decent movie. Less on action than his usual fare and more on dialogue this is a very mysterious movie that got panned by even his biggest fans. He's done a lot better, true, but he's also done worse. How mu...( read more)ch can you really expect from him at this point?
  • August 13, 2007
    Come to my work u will see them everywhere! summer and all!
  • March 9, 2009
    Really great movie to watch
  • February 25, 2009
    If that's not a bad example ov smoking.
  • January 11, 2009
    Pure crapfest, and I don't even mean that in a good way. Boring, cliched espionage time-waster that seems to think it's a lot smarter than it actually is. Features a villain who's indestructable apparently because he always wears a bulletproof vest. If you've tried to kill the ...( read more)dude before by shooting him in the chest, only to find him mysteriously returning to bug you again, wouldn't you just pop a cap in the sucker's head?? No Kevlar there! But nooo, at least 3 characters in this turgid excuse for an actioner just keep pumping bullets into that magic vest of his. Then wonder why they're on the wrong end of the same guy's bullets half an hour later. This is so poorly paced, written and performed that you have every right to expect unintentional laughs, right? Well, imagine my disappointment when they didn't come. Avoid. At all costs.
  • November 9, 2008
    Feeling lucky? *bang*. Probably the ONLY best thing about this film. No offence to Seagal, this wasnt the best cookie in the bakery, but he did a fair play through it. The acting of Max Ryan must of been the best in this film, and to my surprise I even think it was better than Se...( read more)agal's. A typical example of a film made with $2, some BB guns, and a whole lot of sticky tape and cardboard. Congratulations Seagal, you did it again.
  • August 12, 2008
    lol the typical crappy segal movie, with plenty of slo mo shots of SS not actually hitting any thing with flattened hands waxing on n waxing off
  • June 16, 2008
    I don't know why I persist in watching Steven Seagal flicks, he has made a few enjoyable action films but that was a long time ago and by the looks of him a lot of donuts ago as well. A few buildings get blown up, lots of people get shot and there is slow motion in the action sce...( read more)nes but that might be because Seagal can't move that quick any more.
  • May 27, 2008
    i like steven seagal, some of his films are not the greatest but he tries
  • May 22, 2008
    Turn over and die already Steven!!!!

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