The Foreigner starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan

This might be a first for Jackie, playing a revenge driven anti-hero who won't hesitate to kill others.

As I said in the Youtube comments, Jackie Chan's gone full Liam Neeson . I'm just waiting for the inevitable Taken crossover memes to come out of this XD

And damn if he doesn't mange to pull off the gut wrenching and badass off all at the same time. I'm down for this though.

Edit: I did some quick research, and this movie is actually based on 1992 book The Chinaman...despite the fact that the title character is former Viet Cong...I'm choosing to be optimistic about this and assume that its a poke at how white people apparatly think all Asians look the same. Either way, this predates Taken so maybe Loam Neeson went full Jackie Chan XD

edited 26th Jun '17 10:05:36 AM by Sisi

Wow.

This one is really different for Jackie huh?

I think I have heard of a movie where he played a villain (I recall seeing it in a video store a long time ago, but I never watched it) but still, this is something else.

Huh. This might be worth seeing if only for Jackie Chan playing against type.

wasn't he supposed to play the villain in Demolition Man?

I remember him being in a serious vampire movie once.

He was offered it but said he didn't want to do it because Asian audiences don't like heroic actors playing against type. I only know this because it came up on an episode of How Did This Get Made?. They noted that was kind of hilarious because there's a scene in the finished movie where the villain character makes racist "Ching chong ching!!!" noises at some Asians.

edited 26th Jun '17 4:16:47 PM by comicwriter

I read his autobiography (released shortly before the premiere of Rush Hour), and he talks a lot about the difficulty of finding work in the States. Some of his early roles in American films tended to be silent cameos, whereas in China he was flooded everywhere with fans. Much of it was still lingering difficulty with folks comprehending he was something other than a Bruce Lee Clone.

edited 26th Jun '17 4:38:56 PM by Tuckerscreator

The Foreigner (2017) page needs some tropes.

edited 29th Aug '17 7:35:32 AM by MrTerrorist

As I said in the Youtube comments, Jackie Chan's gone full Liam Neeson . I'm just waiting for the inevitable Taken crossover memes to come out of this XD

This actually looks like it might be a deconstruction of the typical "Taken" story. For starters, Quan's daughter isn't kidnapped, she'd dead and Quan's quest is finding the bomber responsible.

Secondly, we see Chan trying and failing to bribe a police officer into finding the bombers. Compare this with Taken, where the one authority figure Mills worked with was working with the villains.

Then there's Pierce Brosnan's character, Liam (hehe) Hennesey. Sure he's a former IRA member but Chan only suspects he knows who the bomber are based on his history. In Taken, we knew who the villains were but going from the trailer the film seems to be going for a bit more moral ambiguity.

Can't be a deconstruction of Taken - the book the film's based on was out decades before Liam got paid all that money to jump over a fence with fifteen cameras watching him do it. I think I'll actually go see this one. Pierce Brosnan's usually good value, and Jackie looks really good as a stone killer.

I meant it was a deconstruction of the type of story Taken was. Sorry should have made that clear

I find Jackie Chan's character in this one to be more of an Anti-Villain Protagonist/Unscrupulous Hero.

This might be the most hardcore Jackie Chan role I've ever seen.

Also, Jackie Chan and a former James Bond... stunning combination!

edited 29th Jun '17 8:16:25 PM by Soble

I'm trying to figure out how they're planning doing the IRA connection, since the book came out in '92, when the IRA was still a thing, but it would be odd for them to be bombing something in 2017. Unless they play it like a mob thing or something.

edited 1st Jul '17 4:43:04 PM by Sisi

New Trailer

Brexit. The peace in Northern Ireland was dependent on British membership in the EU.

Funny how this film's been made in the UK, but it still doesn't have a UK release date yet. I am most not impressed.