The Foreigner shows Seagal's age
25/07/2003 - 21:02:33
The Foreigner features Steven Seagal as Jon Cold, a former undercover operative, now working as a freelance agent delivering high-risk packages.
He is keen to retire from the business, but as he prepares for his father’s funeral, he is asked to make one last trip.
He reluctantly accepts the job of taking a mysterious package from France to Germany.
However, Cold soon discovers there are a lot of people determined to make sure he never completes his task.
Father Time has caught up with Seagal, he’s put on a few pounds and looks as out of place as a secret agent as an elephant in a tutu.
His lumbering efforts at being suave and sophisticated aren’t helped by the fact that he’s stuck with a nightmare of a film.
The Foreigner is convoluted and confusing. The characters come and go without leaving a mark, sometimes you have to wonder why they were there in the first place.
The fight scenes, normally a saving grace for Seagal, are just as bad.
He looks slow and heavy and every one of his 52 years.
I think it’s pipe and slippers time for Mr Seagal.
Action, 15. *
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