Synopsis
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
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Cast
- Pierce BrosnanLiam Hennessy
- Jackie ChanQuan Ngoc Minh
- Rory Fleck-ByrneSean Morrison
- Ray FearonCommander Richard Bromley
- Charlie MurphyMaggie / Sara McKay
- Orla BradyMary Hennessy
- Michael McElhattonJim Kavanagh
- Lia WilliamsKatherine Davies
- Dermot CrowleyHugh McGrath
- Stephen HoganChristy Murphy
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The Seattle Times
[Martin Campbell's] a master at rejuvenating tired warhorses, and he pulls it off again with this one. - 70
Screen Daily
When it comes to the action scenes, Campbell’s unfussy style works well with Chan’s choreography. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 60
Variety
The Foreigner amounts to an above-average but largely by-the-numbers action movie in which Chan does battle with generic thugs and shadowy political forces. - 60
New York Daily News
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. - 50
Consequence
Despite the bait-and-switch of Chan’s limited presence in the film, The Foreigner is slightly better than it appears on paper. Chan and Brosnan offer believable, intense performances, and Campbell coaxes Chan’s style into an abrasive brutality with moments of occasional invention. - 50
Chicago Tribune
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. - 42
IndieWire
The two plot strands are ostensibly linked by an act of indiscriminate violence, but they’re so clumsily threaded together that it just calls attention to the stitch-work.