Originally posted by Lotussan
Better than Exit Wounds? Wowwee, now I AM really excited, heh....
Well...that was from my point of view...I got tired of the rap theme after watching Romeo Must Die...and I had my fill of wire work from The Matrix....
The Foreigner has a combo musical score that starts with something that reminds me of Under Seige 2...and it has a bit of what it seems a synth soundtrack to highten the fight scenes...
and the European locales were a nice change from the urban city setting...the effects were not over done..and it does merit the R rating...so to me ...it's more in line with the "Seagal style movie"...
way more than I thought EW or HPD was.....except for some crazing editing as I mentioned..I liked it alot...I think it's definately worth renting by far...I mean I enjoyed EW & HPD but The Foriegner is more of
my kind of Seagal film....we all have our different tastes and favored flavors....this is just more like the kind of film I would like to see Seagal in........being I'm not familiar with any of the supporting actors I can't really say from their performances..I was mainly looking at it from a Seagal perspective film...
I don't think anyone is going to regret renting and watching it...looking at it from Seagal's complete film work....it's not his best...and not his worst....
and remember..it's just my view....
If you want to see Seagal in a big budget effects and urban scenario with a rap theme than EW is what you would want to see.
If you want to see how Seagal would handle a low budget PG-13 prison film with more of the rap theme then HPD is your choice
If you want to see a low budget with alot of Seagal in European locales..and Seagal is in %85 of the movie due to there not being any major co-stars where Seagal gets put in the background while we are to focus on the other actors scenario; some thing you have to think about for a minute or two(actually I have to watch it again because I know with all the jumping around..I missed some things)..then The Foreigner is a good choice....I would never compare these more recent films with earlier work as ATL , MFD or US...it's a different era now in films and in peoples lives so to me it's not really fair to judge something now to something ten or more years ago.
Though The Foreigner lacks the over done car chases with special effects..or jumping out of helicopters.....it still kept my attention throughout..
John