Steven Seagal (“Marked For Death”, “Exit Wounds”) stars in “The Foreigner” (not to be confused with the unrelated 2017 Jackie Chan movie of the same name), a somewhat enjoyable spy flick. It’s like a poor man’s “Bourne Identity” with lots of goofy moments throughout but it’s certainly nowhere near as bad as many of Seagal’s other movies.
Secret agent Jonathan Cold (Seagal) gets sent to deliver a mysterious package. At every turn, there are people trying to kill him. The whole mission is littered with deception and betrayals so it becomes an increasingly complex situation for him to navigate as he journeys across the European continent.
Seagal is okay as Jonathan Cold. He’s just sort of there but in all fairness, he just needs to shoot a bunch of bad guys. There’s a ton of other characters in here but everything becomes very complicated so you don’t know who is good and who is bad and you don’t really care. It really did remind me of the “Bourne” films with the multiple assassins sent to take down Cold. There’s so much conspiracy talk in here that you just lose track of what the characters are even talking about as nothing is what it initially appears to me.
This is a silly movie with some corny moments. By far the corniest must be the scene where Seagal avoids an explosion while using a urinal (you’ll have to see it to believe it). None of the action sequences are great but they are okay. It’s clearly taking inspiration from “Bourne Identity”, “Mission: Impossible”, “The Transporter” and even some of the “James Bond” movies but everything looks a little cheap here. The characters and dialog are not compelling enough to fully engage you but it is a mildly entertaining picture. It’s a film that Seagal fans will probably want to check out.