The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan (not to be confused with a movie of the same name starring Steven Segal from the early 2000's) delivers a moderate to above-average action thriller, which leans a bit more toward a drama than anything Chan has done in his career. Another rewrite this could've been a favorite for me, so it's disappointing, but as is I still found a lot to like. That performance and the grim tone elevate the movie enough over it's narrative stumbles. It's extremely out of character, but he goes full force into the performance and absolutely nails it. This is not a typical performance from him, he plays a broken man and even his fight sequences have an unexpected amount of grit to them.

And the stuff with Jackie is all absolutely flawless. That said, when the story does what it's supposed to, it works, and I loved it's nihilistic approach and conclusion. We need to be rooting for Jackie Chan's character in a film like this, and for a while I was more just confused because I wasn't even clear that he was going after the right guy. There's a lot of talk about terrorists and new IRA and past dealings and who's really the bad guy it becomes a distraction and it's all told very clumsily. But Walk had a very straightforward plot you could get behind, The Foreigner unfortunately doesn't and that's where it falters. It reminded me a lot A Walk Among The Tombstones, which was one of my favorite movies of that year. This type of story of unassuming man pushed too far, goes to lengths of brutality out of a sense of honor but only wants to return to his humble life, and all done with a lens of extreme grimness. I was actually pretty close to loving this movie, it has a lot of the ingredients of something I would love. Rating: R (Some Sexual Material|Language|Violence) 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. 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 a senseless act of politically motivated terrorism.

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