Sunday, January 26, 2020

Movie review - "The Foreigner" (2003) **

One of the first Seagal films that went straight to video and still earned a lot of money, determining the shape of his career for the next decade. He's a courier who gets involved in shenanigans around a package. There's some cultured evil British accents, a black actor being nasty, a damsel who has quite a big part (Anna Louise Plowman).

Some potentially interesting subplots are not developed - Seagal being haunted by the death of his father, and having a brother, and looking after a kid. Sometimes he is clearly doubled, and he is too tubby for some of the fight scenes.

It was shot in Poland which is surely prettier than as depicted here. Kate Fischer apparently has a small role but I must have blinked and missed her.

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