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Summary: Yawn
Review: You could be forgiven after 15 minutes of this movie for opting for some emergency dental work without anesthesia as a substitute, as it is probably the worst Steven Seagal offering to date. This movie is already being aired on network television, which gives you some idea of the kind of draw (and audience) the producers were expexting to attract. Seagal spends most of the movie clad in black (to hide his ever expanding bulk) and plays a government agent(yawn) who is double crossed and has to save the day, kill all the baddies, and exact revenge on his employers. Formula nonsense with plenty of gratuitous violence, bone crunching fight scenes, and acting performances straight out of the box (cardboard that is). Somebody needs to tell Mr Seagal to call it a day!
Rating: 
Summary: How could you give 5 star without watching it!?
Review: You just can't expect a movie to be good enough to give it a 5 star rating before really having watched it. It's irresponisble and misinformative to all the other readers and viewers, man. This movie is so bad that I am actually very sorry for Seagal, for his beerbelly and his puffy features. I just can't believe how he could not find a good script ever since the first 3 or 4 movies but only tried to cash in with his old image and reputation. I just couldn't agree more to what ... critic review said. This is a really bad and senseless movie.
Rating:
Summary: Action-less Action? What's the Point?!
Review: You might not believe me, but I am probably one of the few (I wish very few) viewers in the world who actually went to theater, paying money at box-office, in order to watch this dreadfully bad movie. Right, I am living in Japan, and they for some reasons I don't care decided to release it theatrically. Think of the dismay we (well, I was not alone, among twenty or more people) experienced. Please."The Foreigner" is a direct-to-video film in USA, I now know, but that is no surprise. The story is non-existent, concerning some mystery about a 'package' with which Steven Seagal's character, a sort of no-nonsense professional transporter, gets involved, but that's only an excuse for many body counts. In fact, the film is just about pointless killings of mainly innocent people (two women included) or some mobsters who do not have even a chance to shoot at Seagal. These guys somehow want to get this mysterious package, and under very occassional crossfires Seagal tries to reveal the truth about it and a beautiful wife of another mysterious owner of a big company. Seagal's character sees so many plot twists, and so many unconvincing situations too are inserted in the story that we start to lose interest after its opening 30 minutes. One guy changes side; another guy also changes side, it seems ... before the first guys changes side again (sort of), and the blonde woman starts to mumble something that confuses Seagal. And us too. But without logical development of the story, the film is just a mess. Most unaccountably, Seagal the hero of the film doesn't know what he really wants to do, so why should we care? Everything is shot in Poland in a modern noir fashion, but that photography doesn't salvage the film from the dire misery. Sorry to say this fans, but Seagal's career after surprise hit "Exit Wounds" has nosedived obviously, and I don't know what to say about him. Warner Bros. was wise in telling him to join force with popular rapper DMX, who has shown more charisma to attact the audience. At least those rappers (from LL Cool J to most successful Will Smith) know how to show themselves on screen. And Seagal? He needs either an acting coach or shape up. None of them he seems to have had, judging from this messy film. Michael Oblovitz, who got a back-to-back contract to shoot Seagal films, is famous for creating moody atomosphere in his films (like vampire flick "The Breed"), but as far as actions go, his way of showing them is little better than that of amateur. Excuse me for this harsh review, but when Seagal throws a guy from an escalator, or shoots some thugs, the film uses very flashy techiniques -- jump-cuts, slow motions, you name it -- as if to suggest that this is a very cool action no one can imitate. Come on, the trick is too obvious. I could find nothing recommendable about this film, which is a rare case for me. But that is true, and no one even his avid fans should not deny that. This is really bad.
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