While it could be very easy to get caught up in the politics within, at the end of the day, this is a personal story. That is what “The Foreigner” is based upon, it mentions the peace accord several times and how long it has been in place but for the sake of dramatic license for the movie, a fictional arm of the former terrorist organization is created and tensions between the British and Northern Ireland begin to surface once more. put down their weapons and the killings and bombings stopped. were the bad guys in a movie, off the top of my head, 1997’s “The Devil’s Own,” with Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt comes to mind but once the peace accord, known as the Good Friday Agreement, was put in place between Northern Ireland and the U.K. When news surfaces that someone close to him is working with the terrorists, Hennessy tortures them for the names and locations and passes it along to Quan, knowing that he will take care of business and nothing will be tied back to him but even after Quan makes his way to the terrorists’ location, he and Hennessy discover that another bombing has been planned in a very public place, and now it is up to both men to try and stop the detonation before the body count rises. When Hennessy moves his wife to their country retreat, thinking they’ll be safe there, the barn is mysteriously blown up and no matter how many men are sent out after him, they keep coming back in pieces. Everywhere he goes, Quan is always one step ahead of him. Quan refuses to believe that Hennessy knows nothing and sets his sights on him. in years gone by and decides to pay him a visit.Īt his office, Hennessy gives his condolences to Quan for his loss but when Quan presses him for the names of the bombers, and Hennessy tells him that he doesn’t know, this triggers a war between the two men. On the TV one night, Quan sees Hennessy being interviewed and asked about his past spent with the I.R.A. Quan visits the local police station daily, wanting to know the names of the bombers but the police inform him that they do not know as it is an ongoing investigation. and demands from the men and women in his party, to find out who is responsible, no matter what the cost. who fought for years for peace in Northern Ireland, he fears that these new attacks will set back almost twenty years of progress between the North and the U.K. When British government official Liam Hennessy (Pierce Brosnan) finds out about the bombing, he is livid. Later, word comes out that a group who call themselves the Authentic I.R.A., have claimed responsibility for the attack. When the smoke clears, Quan discovers Fan inside the store and sits down on the ground, holding her lifeless body in his arms. As she makes her way into the store, a bomb is detonated directly outside of it and cars, glass and debris are scattered everywhere. As the school year comes to an end, Fan has her father drive her to a store in town so she can pick out her dress for the upcoming school prom. Ngoc Minh Quan (Jackie Chan) lives in London and owns a Vietnamese restaurant, of which he and his teenage daughter Fan (Katie Leung) live above it. Brosnan’s age, and delivers a taut, intelligent, and overall, enjoyable two hours of screen time. Instead, we are treated to a sophisticated action thriller that caters to both Mr. The man is now 63 years-old so his high-flying, no-safety-net stunt extravaganzas are no more. Jackie Chan is a legend and has produced some of the most spectacular action-packed movies in history so when word came that he was going to be making a movie starring alongside the ultimate action icon, James Bond himself, Pierce Brosnan, all of fandom rejoiced but before you geek out, know that “The Foreigner” is not your typical Jackie Chan vehicle. Over the course of his career, he has sustained a broken nose, knocked out tooth, lacerated lip, chin injury, dislocated shoulder, broken breastbone as well as several fingers, damaged tailbone, spinal damage, skull fracture, bone cave-in behind his left ear, and brain bleeding from falling out of a tree. As he performed all of his own stunts when he was younger, he has had more near-death experiences than anybody on the planet and has the injuries to prove it. While Lee and Norris were more straightforward in their fighting techniques, Chan made a name for himself as he added insane stunts and over-the-top humor to his particular style. I grew up in Ireland in the ’70s and ’80s idolizing Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and Jackie Chan. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers’ identities. A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism.
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