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> Foreigner, The (2003) |
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Directed by:
Michael Oblowitz
Starring:
Steven Seagal as Jonathan Cold
Max Ryan as Dunoir
Harry Van Gorkum as Jerome Van Aiken
Jeffrey Pierce as Sean Cold
Anna-Louise Plowman as Mrs. Meredith Van Aiken
Sherman Augustus as Mr. Mimms
Gary Raymond as Jared Olyphant
Philip Dunbar as Alexander Morquest
Izabela Okrasa as Van Aken's Daughter
Grzegorz Kowalczyk as Rolls Royce Driver |
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- (Factual errors) When one of the bad guys
gets shot in the chest with a shotgun you
see a large amount of blood shoot out about
2 feet forward instead of out of his back.
(Widescreen) - NightCrawler
- (Continuity) After surviving the ambush,
Steven Seagal, as Jonathon Cold, is driving
with Dunois in the passenger seat. Seagal
places his pistol and threatens to shoot Dunois
in the crotch. In the close up of the gun
to the crotch, the pistol's hammer is down
(DVD marker 12:44). In the next long shot,
the pistol's hammer is cocked (DVD marker
12:47). (DVD) - Kieth
Moreland
- (Factual errors) After arriving in Warsaw,
Seagal is shown a file on him by the CIA man.
One of the photos is of Seagal in a U.S. Navy
white dress uniform... the only problem is,
is that the ribbons are over the right breast
pocket (DVD marker 16:52). (DVD) - Kieth
Moreland
- (Revealing mistake) When agent Mims, a black
CIA man with a gotee, is killed by Seagal,
as his body hits the water, it appears a clean
shaven white stuntman. (DVD) - Kieth
Moreland
- (Factual errors) This movie is fighting
for the title of most "lock and load"
sequences. None of the main characters, all
professional killers or CIA men never carry
a weapon ready to fire...about four times
in this film, there's a scene where a character
has to "lock and load" his weapon
prior to engaging someone he's about to shoot.
Why is it the anonymous bad guys on guard
duty carry guns ready to shoot, but the main
character good or bad guys have to pull the
slide of their pistol or pump the action of
their shotgun before engaging their adversary?
(DVD) - Kieth
Moreland
- (Plot holes) Okay, let's move on to the
use of suppressors (aka: silencers) in this
film...when Dunois kills the hotel clerk he
does it with a non-suppressed weapon, that
would have alarmed every hotel guest, other
employee, or passerby...yet, he goes upstairs
to confront "Cold" and enters the
room armed with two guns, one with a suppressor.
If it was necessary to kill the girl before
trying to kill Cold, why wouldn't he used
the suppressed weapon in the first place?
(DVD) - Kieth
Moreland
- (Plot holes) In the assault on Van Aiken's
mansion, Cold eventually kills a guard with
a non-suppressed pistol, that didn't alarm
any other guards, staff, or Van Aiken, himself?
Yet, inside the house, Cold shoots Dunois
with a suppressed pistol, but moves on to
confront Van Aiken without a suppressor on
the pistol? (DVD) - Kieth
Moreland
- (Plot holes) After the first counter girl
is killed, and Dunois is shot at the Hotel
Terminus, both Cold and Mims have no trouble
about going back there? In other spy films,
doesn't that "burn" the location?
Plus, I guess both the manager or police felt
no need to brief the new girl at the desk
about any strange guests or visitors, never
mind what happened to the previous counter
girl. No wonder this was a straight to video
movie! (DVD) - Kieth
Moreland
- (Plot holes) Okay, even if we never mind
being shot in a bullet-resistant vest, Dunois
is propelled out a second-floor window lands
on his head and back, but merely gets a flesh
wound and able to walk away? Only later, to
be shot again by Seagal in the chest but no
bulky vest is visible under his tee-shirt...
and besides Seagal has hit him once in the
head failing to kill him once before. I guess
I can't understand Seagal, the expert shot
and tactician, not shooting him in the head
to make sure Dunois is really dead! (DVD)
- Kieth
Moreland
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