Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

aldebaran68 Let's say one thing straight away. I'm 60+ so I grew up in England with the Troubles in Ulster. From around 1969 when the first British troops went into Ulster (that was shocking in itself, to see British troops on active service on UK territory...) to 1990s and the Good Friday agreement. 30 years of The Troubles. 30 years of IRA (Provo) bombs on the mainland. If you think Islamic terror is bad here in the UK, the IRA outdid them easily. And in those days Counter-Terrorism was nowhere near as sophisticated as today. No Internet. No mobile phones. No IT of any sort. It was Another World. And it was Nightmarish. So I'm coming at this film from that era. I've had good friends from Ulster and from the Republic. I have some understanding of The Troubles. This film is intriguing in that Pierce Brosnan does IMHO a very good job of impersonating 'a version' of Gerry Adams. Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, was omnipresent on TV during the Troubles. Every night, on TV, there seemed to be some IRA event gong on/off in Ulster, or here on the mainland. And every night he'd be commenting. I have a lot of sympathy for the Irish and the Republican cause but not, abs. not for the violence. So this movie took me back to those days. Not sure I wanted to go there but I was intrigued. I'm a Pierce Brosnan fan, love his style, his movies. I was very impressed by his 'Ulster Light' accent and his variation on Gerry Adams. I could almost see Gerry Adams in Brosnan. It was quite astonishing really. The whole IRA side of the movie struck me as very authentic...except...that when faced with Jackie Chan's character the IRA were made to look like dunces. Now as I said I abhorred the violence of those 30 years, but, it's a fact that the IRA ran rings around the British Army and the British administration in Ulster for that time. They kept the British Army at bay for 30 years, then went into power anyhow in Ulster in the '90s. So, to portray the IRA as dunces was... 'inaccurate'. Even though the film is set in the present, the inferences/references are all to The Troubles. The IRA is still considered a potential threat. No dunces there. Now the bit I found to be flawed was the Jackie Chan aspect. I love JC, his films in his earlier years, his comedies are wonderful and wonderfully entertaining. His martial arts are acrobatic and balletic. But, at 60+, he should give it a rest now. He is a very good actor. But to have him 'win' any of his physical encounters with young men half or 2/3 his age was beyond belief. Not good. Even with his 'training', he is as old as I am. Not believable. His part of the film is terribly flawed. It's a shame. I'd watch this again for PB any day, but Chan's part leaves me cold. Sorry Jackie...not your fault. It just doesn't work for me. So 6 out of 10 seems fair.

CIDMoosa A colossal digression from his stereotype roles - The Foreigner is the ideal comeback for the legendary Jackie Chan, a part-action part-political thriller based on the IRA bombings. Miles away from the silly and entertaining Rush-Hour, Shanghai Noon type flicks, Chan does one hell of a job emoting pretty seriously as a vulnerable and repressed parent seeking out redemption. Jackie Chan plays Quan, a small, unassuming Asian man whose daughter happens to be a casualty in a politically motivated London bombing. His search for the elusive killers leads him to a British / Irish government official (Pierce Brosnan), whose own murky past with the Irish Republican Army holds clues to the killers and their motives. With all the possibilities of being a standard action movie with a weak plot, the surprise factor in The Foreigner is the screenplay which switches between the IRA conspiracy part and the Chan vendetta quite cleverly, progressing parallel in extreme pace and converging enough at different points. Added to the plot twists is the dour and serious Jackie Chan who doesn't break into a smile at all through the major runtime. Fans expecting hardcore or overdone martial arts scenes or Kung Fu bloopers are in for a surprise, for this part Rambo-part Taken-part Patriot Games thriller carries off a quite dark vigilante version of Chan without excessive CGI laden action scenes of his last few movies. While Jackie Chan surprises with some fine dramatic performance and his usual agile stunt works, Pierce Brosnan has gracefully aged from his bond franchise in to the Former IRA-turned cunning and conspiring politician role. A fine political thriller + action movie !

philmccarthy10 I was worried that this was going to be either an out of its comfort zone martial arts movie or an awkward political drama with misplaced action scenes wedged in but instead we got a fantastic and quite heartbreaking revenge drama featuring two very strong lead performances and realistic action set pieces stripped of any gloss. Highly recommend.

A "How many did I get"... What an a-hole!Burning the past... Now you are n trouble... A man with nothing left to loose.He keeps his phone on military time.Very nice car knee.Gonna be hard to blend in.Family first.I hope that flatscreen wasn't a rental.