This is a great movie; I wasn't expecting much so was hugely surprised by the plot and the story line. Very much worth seeing! Best bit was having Jackie Chan back in the movie. Such a legend.

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 !

"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.

As an action movie, this film is excellent. But more to the point, it starkly shows up the tragedy that inevitably ensues when people nurture hatred. In the film, it is the IRA, but it could easily be applied to other places where they are still fighting wars going back as many as 500 years or more.