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The Foreigner

2017

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STX Entertainment | Release Date: October 13, 2017 | R

Starring: Aaron Monaghan, Caolan Byrne, Charlie Murphy, Donna Bernard, Jackie Chan, John Cronin, Katie Leung, Mark Tandy, Michael McElhatton, Niall McNamee, Orla Brady, Pierce Brosnan, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Ray Fearon, Rory Fleck-Byrne, Rufus Jones, Simon Kunz, Thusitha Jayasundera

Summary: London businessman Quan (Jackie Chan) sees his long-buried past erupt in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love — his teenage daughter — is taken from him in a senseless act of politically-motivated terrorism. In his relentless search for the identity of the terrorists, Quan is forced into a cat-and-mouse… Expand

Director: Martin Campbell

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 113 min

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James Berardinelli

Oct 14, 2017

In terms of overall visceral impact, The Foreigner is perhaps not as satisfying as a John Wick or the aforementioned Payback because it’s a more serious, complex movie. Nevertheless, it’s well-made, nicely paced and accomplishes what we expect from this sort of film. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Oct 12, 2017

The movie also allows Chan to demonstrate that he can act. In between setting traps, blowing things up and rendering people unconscious, Chan plays grief in The Foreigner, and his face contains all the sadness of the world. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Oct 13, 2017

The Foreigner is a good, lean cut of meat—in other words, a typical Martin Campbell movie, expeditious and cold-blooded in its cross-cut, cloak-and-dagger plotting and violence. Read full review

Clarence Tsui

Oct 10, 2017

While Brosnan has quite a few opportunities to show his acting chops, Chan makes do with less…. In any case, it’s good to see Chan swapping his happy-go-lucky persona for two hours for some gravitas as a tragic rogue with a marked past. Read full review

Ethan Sacks

Oct 12, 2017

Now that’s a kick in the head: A Western filmmaker is taking Jackie Chan seriously. The Foreigner, however, takes him a little too seriously. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Oct 12, 2017

Despite its literary origins, the film feels a bit like a writer tossed a few darts at a board labeled with aging action stars and various terrorist groups and just decided to make it work. Read full review

RogerEbert.comSimon Abrams

Oct 13, 2017

The turgid revenge thriller The Foreigner is an all-around lousy movie. Read full review

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namor216

Oct 14, 2017

I’m a big Chan Fan, watched almost all of his movies. Most folks from the west aren’t familiar with his more serious roles in China or how brutal some of his early movies were, so it was refreshing to see him portraying a man who lost everything. The movie itself has good pacing, pulse… Expand

terminatorOST

Oct 14, 2017

Very well built political action triller (cudos to the director Martin Campbell for that “very well built” part). Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan are giving (probably) the best performances of their careers. The action scenes are raw, brutal, not something, that you might expect from your… Expand

yatz

Nov 6, 2017

Not much Chan martial arts wackiness, here, and the killer smile is nowhere to be seen – but he’s as effective as he’s ever been; each blow (and there ARE quite a bit) counts, and you really care for him and his motivation. Brosnan is great as the suit with a shady past (and present?). Just… Expand

Meth-dude

Apr 26, 2020

While it’s not the most original action movie out there and it is quite predictable at times, Jackie Chan is still great, the soundtrack was surprisingly good, the action sequences were very well made, the movie was entertaining and the ending was satisfying. If you’re looking for a grim… Expand

Voodoo123

Jan 7, 2018

By the numbers revenge action thriller starring Brosnan and Chan. It’s a well produced film that takes its plot seriously, adding an IRA bomb plot flavour into the mix. Campbell’s kinetic action scenes at times reminded me of casino royale. Overall The Foreigner is ‘that’ style of revenge… Expand

Tyranian

Oct 12, 2019

Reasonably entertaining action-thriller with good acting but ridiculous plot.

lghulm

Dec 3, 2017

How it escapes people that every person of colour in the movie is a good guy and virtually every white person a bad guy is beyond me. Pretty much the inverse of modern terrorism in Europe. These things are intentional and in an environment where globalists are desperate to destroy White… Expand

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