Comments by "Dan" (@Dan-di9jd) on "Steven Seagal's The Foreigner Is The Worst Movie Since His Last Movie - Worst Movie Ever" video.

His entire role in this movie is confusing as his horrible ability to be a good assassin. First, it seems like the "I bet your pardon" people, who are CIA I assume, hired him at the start who was looking for the package. Somehow, Pete found the package, had it in his hands, and instead of just running away with it somehow gave it to Seagal. At the end of the movie, despite the fact the guy who they were delivering the package to is shot by Pete himself, he still wants the package. The package contains information about the guy he shot who shot down a plane carrying his wife's lover which again was not figured out by anyone but Seagal who knew his name that was never mentioned by anyone else in the film. Overall Pete's role was never explained, he kept getting killed for no reason, and the three times he came across the package that he seems to want, he didn't even tried to walk away with it. I honestly don't think when Seagal wrote this movie he meant for Pete to be killed off so many times. I think instead Seagal completely forgot he killed him and had him re-killed and the director and Pete were probably both trying to explain to Seagal about it but he probably protested by running off to his trailer.
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Apparently Black Down is the follow up to this movie where he's playing the same character Jonathan Cold, if you can believe it.
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I watched the film myself, and I remember by the end of it I couldn't even understand the significance of the package. I'm glad I'm not the only one confused by the whole thing. I thought maybe I missed a small detail or something so I watched it twice trying to figure out missed clues or something but couldn't find or hear any. One minute the package is about a plane crash to cover up a guy's identity, but the guy is alive, so why would someone alive try to cover up the fact he "died" in a plane crash? Was he a different person? Plus if the guy died in the plane crash, wouldn't his wife be like, "Hmm, my husband looks a tad bit different since his trip." Plus what about his co-workers? Or friends and families? Wouldn't they feel like something is amiss that since his trip he came back looking different and acting different? Plus at the end of the movie, why did Cold (Seagal) have to kill the guy behind the whole package thing? Matter of fact, why did everyone try to get the package itself when the guy who apparently "died" in it is alive and well? Couldn't they simply spin it similar to how they did the crash coverup?
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@jds355 the number of "twists" that came with the package is really mind boggling that it made it so complicated and complex that it's hard to tell if by the end of the movie everyone was resolved or not.
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Plus the content of the "package" is so silly. It has newspaper clippings and the blackbox, none of which proved that he "died" in the plane crash or that there was a cover up of some sort. It's like if they pulled your DMV record, saw you were in a crash 5 years ago, a newspaper article about the crash, and somehow you're the imposter or something unclear.
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@in this film Seagal had a lot of people with seemingly long histories and yet we learn nothing about their seemingly complex relationships in either films.
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Yeah the whole package thing is very silly. The entire concept behind it is to cover up that he died in the plane crash but it's unclear if he's an imposter or not because everyone seem to treat him exactly like they did with the supposedly dead person, including his so-called wife. Why would they need the package to prove or disprove that he's who he claims to be? It's like everyone would see him, and think, "He sure changed a lot since his plane crash."
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@jds355 keep in mind only Seagal figured that out. Everyone else I think didn’t know the content of the package despite the person that wanted the package was killed by that Pete Davidson dude. Seagal basically read some newspaper articles and listened to some vague audio then pieced together this elaborate story of missile hitting a plane and the guy covering up a cheating spouse. Despite that he tries to have an affair with the wife and believes she is the “good guy” of the story.
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I managed to rewatch this over the weekend. The thing I find funny is that Seagal immediately falls in love with the guy's wife, and on top of that she sends that english dude who said "easy! easy!" to him and yet, he doesn't retaliate to her despite others in the film getting far worse for simply saying, "I beg your pardon!?" It's like he thinks this is how women flirts with secret agents. I did finally pick up a clue about the package though. It's supposed to cover up the fact the wife was having an affair, something that was never mentioned anywhere else in the film and somehow Seagal figured it all out and explained it to the woman's husband based on nothing more than audio clip of the pilots talking about a possible missile. In any event, the whole CIA, KGB, mobster, Pete, etc all trying to get the package is NEVER explained on why they need a package about a guy who tries to cover up his wife's affair and on top of that the Pete guy ends up getting rid of the husband and yet still wants the package for what reason?
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