The Foreigner (2003 film)
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| Directed by | Michael Oblowitz |
| Produced by | Andrew Stevens Elie Samaha Steven Seagal Kamal Aboukhater |
| Written by | Darren O. Campbell |
| Starring | Steven Seagal |
| Music by | David Wurst Eric Wurst |
| Distributed by | Screen Gems |
| Release date(s) | January 28, 2003 |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20,000,000 USD |
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The Foreigner is a 2003 movie starring Steven Seagal. It has been rated R by the MPAA.
This film was Seagal's second direct-to-video release (the first being The Patriot). It was originally intended to be released theatrically in the United States, but was changed to a DTV release when Seagal's last theatrical release, Half Past Dead, performed poorly both financially and with audiences. It did, however, receive a release theatrically in South Korea, Bahrain, and Kuwait.
[edit] Plot
(From IMDb)
Jonathan "John" Cold (Steven Seagal) is a former "foreigner," or deep cover operative, who now works as a freelance agent who is frequently commissioned to deliver high-risk packages.
As John prepares for his father's funeral, Alexander Marquet (Philip Dunbar) asks him to take on an assignment. John is keen to leave the business, but he reluctantly accepts the job.
His task is to take a mysterious package from France to a wealthy man in Germany. But John will soon find that there are a lot of people who are determined to prevent him from doing so. John is accompanied by Dunoir (Max Ryan) to a farmhouse to pick up the package, and they are attacked by assassins.
John fights them off and decides to continue with the assignment. Leaving Dunoir behind in France, John heads for his father Jackson's memorial service in Warsaw, Poland, and there meets up with his brother Sean (Jeffrey Pierce) before continuing on to Germany.
The package turns out to contain a black box flight recorder from an aircraft that had been suspiciously downed, and the recipient -- sinister industrialist Jerome Van Aken (Harry Van Gorkum) -- has a vested interest in.
Once he arrives in Germany, John discovers that he is being pursued by various agents and assassins, while Van Aken's wife Meredith (Anna-Louise Plowman) and CIA spook Jared Olyphant (Gary Raymond) also seem to want to get hold of the package.
[edit] Sequel
A sequel to The Foreigner, titled Black Dawn, was released in 2005. Seagal's character John Cold is the only character who returns from the original.
