The Foreigner (2017)
Genre: Thriller / Action
Duration: 114 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / China / United States
Directed by: Martin Campbell
Stars: Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan and Charlie Murphy
IMDb score:
7,0 (131.783)
Releasedate: 28 September 2017
The Foreigner plot
"Never push a good man too far"
Quan, the owner of a Chinese restaurant who lost two daughters while fleeing to England in 1984 and whose wife died giving birth to his youngest daughter, is so overcome with grief when his daughter is killed in a bomb attack claimed by 'The Authentic'. IRA', believed to be a splinter group within the IRA. Quan, a former commando specialized in explosives and hand-to-hand combat, decides to deal with the perpetrators himself. His search leads him to deputy prime minister and former IRA ringleader Liam Hennessy (Pierce Brosnan), who tries to prevent the attack from leading to a resumption of armed struggle in Northern Ireland.
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Actors and actresses
Liam Hennessy
Quan Ngoc Minh
Sean Morrison
Commander Richard Bromley
Maggie / Sara McKay
Mary Hennessy
Jim Kavanagh
Katherine Davies
Hugh McGrath
Christy Murphy
Reviews & comments
thunderball
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- 5900 messages
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Took it out of a box of discounted DVDs a while ago and watched it tonight.
For Chans doing this is a very serious action thriller, without the usual humor and self-relativity. What you do get is a serious thriller with drama and some hard action here and there about a man who has lost everything in life and is only out for revenge and justice.
Both sides of the story are illuminated and we also see how Brosnan, as Irish deputy prime minister and also ex-IRA member of the hardline, has to bend all kinds of bends to save his position, reputation and clean limb.
Film is reasonably exciting, but can't rise above TV level and is ultimately only nice, but certainly not a high-flyer. Director Campbell was once responsible for successfully rebooting the James Bond franchise twice and did the same for Zorro, but has never made anything of substantial significance since. He will certainly not write film history with this film either.
A six or three stars.
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IceTigerGhost
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- 673 messages
- 2744 votes
'The Foreigner' is a neatly shot film that seems to want to combine two genres: a political thriller with Pierce Brosnan and an action movie with Jackie Chan. This results in a not always consistent whole, but Martin Campbell still managed to make it an easy-to-watch whole. Campbell is therefore a professional who has, among other things, two Bond films to his name, including one with the same Brosnan. For Chan, it is a rare role in the more serious genre. And that's no mistake because 'The Foreigner' is a great film.
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Sergio Leone
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- 4430 messages
- 3110 votes
Solid.
Not the most believable film, but all in all precise enough to justify a night at the movies. Jackie Chan acts better than the stiff Pierce Brosnan, yet a mediocre actor once some emotion is involved. But Chan also feels a bit out of place, especially when he gets to play Rambo. His action scenes are not really compatible with the political posturing and the twists that go with it.
All this makes for a film that is not quite in balance, although Martin Campbell does manage to make it look decent enough. In any case, he does drive a strange course as a director, from good and adventurous action films to an archipelago superhero film and then most recently back to this. It is hoped that he will once again reach the level of films such as GoldenEye and The Mask of Zorro.
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