| The Foreigner (2002) | |
|---|---|
| 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 | TriStar Pictures Franchise Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 8 February 2002 |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $16,700,000 USD |
The Foreigner is a 2002 movie starring Steven Seagal. The film was shot entirely in Poland, in Warsaw.
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Jonathan "Jon" 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 Jon prepares for his father's funeral, Alexander Marquet (Philip Dunbar) asks him to take on an assignment. Jon 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 Jon will soon find that there are a lot of people who are determined to prevent him from doing so. Jon is accompanied by Dunoir (Max Ryan) to a farmhouse to pick up the package, and they are attacked by assassins.
Jon fights them off and decides to continue with the assignment. Leaving Dunoir behind in France, Jon heads for his father Jackson's memorial service in Warsaw, Poland, and Jon 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 it.
Once he arrives in Germany, Jon 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.
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. The film is about Jonathon Cold (Steven Seagal) is a freelance agent hired by a mysterious man to deliver a package from France to Germany. The contents of the package remain undisclosed, even between employer and employee, but whatever it contains seems to be attracting a swarm of political corruption, backstabbing bad guys and murder. However, Cold knows he must stay one step ahead of the evil powers at work, whoever they are, no matter what the cost, as it increasingly becomes a game of step on or be stepped on.
The Foreigner was released straight to video, without a receiving a theatrical release.[1] It was critically panned, with a rating of 0% on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.[2]