In the meantime, has already uploaded posts hours just hours into its existence. The administrator said their case will be reviewed by Instagram in the next 24 hours. The Foreigner doesn't make any judgments about that either way.“One thing’s for sure: we were accused of violating community guidelines.” The best part of the film is when the London police pull out a car battery to torture a woman for information. The bad guys are going to die, it's just a matter of who does it. When he finally gets the chance, as we know that he will, it's all hollow anyway because the police are on the verge of doing what Quan wants to do. Chan plays Quan as animated only by the idea that he will bring his daughter's killers to justice. The older I get, the less sure I am of anything I used to be sure about. The Foreigner is about how quickly everything becomes decrepit, and how fast everything becomes incomprehensible. Hennessy, for his part, recognizes that the world has moved on to newer atrocities without him. An old colleague notes that Hennessy's a pale shadow of his former self. ![]() The IRA is portrayed as a neutered political machine no different from any other party in British politics at this point-an idea underscored by Hennessy's cuckolding by his own nephew and the myriad other betrayals he suffers over the course of the film. No one will answer the phone now when he needs help. He was used by the Americans as a sapper in Vietnam. Quan, for all his decorations in war, is reduced to first a victimized refugee emigrating from war on a boat with his young family, then a blue-collar worker hoping to provide a better future for his daughter. Was it 1993's The Joy Luck Club? What was it before that? There's a sense in The Foreigner, then, of a certain surrender to the way things are. ![]() Indeed, let's mark the last time there was an Asian romantic lead in a mainstream-produced American film. If Chan couldn't "cross over" to Hollywood, no Asian leading man ever could. The running gag in the Tucker partnership? That Tucker could never get it straight whether Chan was Chinese or Japanese. It's fruitful to consider that this globally famous and powerful man was, when he belatedly broke through in Hollywood, consistently cast in humiliating sidekick roles next to Chris Tucker (three times) and Owen Wilson (twice). More, The Foreigner, because it's about a lot of talking and other garbage that is only hard to follow because it's so boring and rote, offers plenty of time to contemplate Chan and his career. But when he shakes his hand now, or rubs his arm after getting hit by a stick, it seems more an allowance for age than a clown and his trademark shtick. In The Foreigner, his persona takes on a certain pathos because of his age. When he got married a couple of decades ago, some girls killed themselves. Chan brought a curious humanity to the Kung Fu genre. Bruce and Jet couldn't have played the Drunken Master. He has things broken on him and he falls down a lot. ![]() When he hits someone, he shakes his hand afterwards as though it hurt. He's not indestructible, implacable, driven by fury like a Bruce Lee or, definitely, a Jet Li. That's because Chan, who has made a career as perhaps the single biggest and most important star in the world over the last forty years, made it on a very particular personality. The Foreigner isn't a great film, but it's an interesting one for all its mediocrity. It's a role that Liam Neeson would have played had there not been a recent hue and cry over yellowface and whitewashing, and so Chan, in the twilight of his action career, is forced into somewhat thankless service in a film that wants to be more like The Fourth Protocol than like Police Story. ![]() Quan terrorizes the terrorists, stakes them out at Hennessy's farmhouse/fortress, and generally makes life miserable for everyone until he finds the people responsible for his daughter's death. Having failed in his attempts to bribe London officials for names, Chan's Quan, restaurateur/owner of The Happy Peacock, focuses his attentions on former IRA/Sinn Fein leader Hennessy (Pierce Brosnan). Screenplay by David Marconi, based on the novel The Chinaman by Stephen Leatherīy Walter Chaw Martin Campbell's The Foreigner, based on Stephen Leather's novel The Chinaman, showcases the great, the incomparable, Jackie Chan as a grief-stricken man with a Special Forces past, galvanized into action when an IRA bomb kills his only, and last, daughter in a chichi London retail block.
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