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Such a frustrating disappointment

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Seagal takes his slap-phooey to eastern Europe and France in this espionage thriller. A messy and incoherent plot ensues and it's difficult most of the time to even work out who are supposed to be the 'good guys' it's so protracted. For all the supposed intrigue it poses little because the villian keeps coming back in an astonishing wide plot hole. Mr. Seagal is passable as an old spy and he's able to deliver some martial arts manouevres but it's far from the finesse of his films of the late 1980s. The fast-motion, slow-motion camerawork is distracting as are other overhead shots. All in all, a film that could have ended 20 mins earlier and then 10 mins earlier and then 5 mins earlier, but all these were missed and we had an astonishing false note ending.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for Seagal movies but this is one of my favorites. Ronin was an obvious antecedent, both movies sharing the same mysterious Package and totally amoral world-view resulting in a virtually plot less series of action scenes reminiscent of the the blockbuster action movies of the 90s on.Foreigner does add the Damsel in distress angle and folds it in well in order to provide a positive denouement and there are the usual rivalry and betrayal themes common to the genre, which are also played out well and, frankly, every time I've watched it, it's drawn me in and kept me interested.From what I read in reviews in general and most of these here, about Foreigner, Seagal movies appear to be either an acquired or simply a personal taste so I'm not going argue with those who have written the majority of these reviews.Point of posting this review: there are actually people who enjoy these movies.

If I could have given this film 0/10 I would, and this is the first film I have wanted to rate so low. Its worse than awful. If I went to see it in the cinema I would want the cinema to pay ME for watching it (at least minimum wage). Some of the camera shots were quite effective, but a lot were rubbish eg. villains reflection in a mirror that separates his head and shoulders side-ways from his body (seeing is believing). Several totally pointless killings of innocent civilians. 2 murders that made me laugh out loud due to the victims actions/facial expressions when they were shot. I only watched it to the end (fast forwarding about 10 mins of the boring pointless dialogue) hoping to see Seagal in some decent hand to hand combat, but there was almost none of that (should have known that when at the beginning he threw someone while going down an elevator and it was shown in slow motion with music - end of 'action' scene). In one scene we see Seagal hand chop someones neck in slow motion which makes it obvious that his hand never even made contact). The chief villain keeps coming back to life. He gets shot in the chest on 2 separate occasions. The 1st time its with a shotgun which blows him out the 2nd/3rd floor onto the street. To sum up, this film is a total waste of time and a total joke. It looks very low budget (even for Seagal). The colour is dull and grey. I could go on and on....just like this film, but I wont. Watch this film if you've got insomnia. Its guaranteed to put you to sleep.

Well I watched this last night with my brother, and to our amazement we both ended up thinking it was not too bad at the end of it....Yes its pretty close to most of his movies with a lot of holes through out and bad supporting cast.... however what made it so different from most of the others is the shooting scenes I thought were quite enjoyable, and at times the slow motion shots were pretty cool as well, however to be honest after a while it just got annoying... I don't want to say to much and give out spoilers, but I do think if your a Seagal fan you should watch it.Of course I am not saying it is one of his best or even close. But I know a lot of you out there have seen a lot of his straight to video movies such as Out For A Kill, Kill Switch, Attack Force, Submerged etc.... and compared to those bunch this was quite enjoyable. I also watched Black Dawn last week which I didn't know was a sequel till just now, and it was HORRIBLE!!! I actually think it was Seagal's worst movie yet!!!! The Foreginer on the other hand was nothing like it and was a lot more exciting. I give it a 6 over all, and would actually watch it again with a friend.I guess it just depends what your comparing it to. If I saw this right after watching Hard to Kill, or Out For Justice then I would find it horrible.... however the past week I watched Kill Switch, and Flight of Fury and this was a breath of fresh air compared to those two haha... I might just be being to generous though.