The Foreigner is another work of the director of Casino Royale, which has Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan starring in it. Long-buried past of a humble London businessman Quan becomes the reason of revenge-fueled vendetta for the politically-motivated terrorists who kidnap the only person whom he loves, his daughter. While Quan is trying to find and safe his daughter he's being drawn into a conflict with the government official of Britain (Pierce Brosnan) whose own past might occur to be the key to the killers' personalities.
Chan often feels like a visitor in his own film, and the script attempts some plot pirouettes that don't always flow gracefully. Yet overall, The Foreigner proves to be a respectable example of a thinking person's action flick.
The Foreigner is a good, lean cut of meat-in other words, a typical Martin Campbell movie, expeditious and cold-blooded in its cross-cut, cloak-and-dagger plotting and violence.
The movie is at its best when it's keeping things simple, specifically with the game of cat and mouse that plays out between Pierce Brosnan and Jackie Chan.
Jackie's back in town and it's nice to see him in something that isn't so campy. The Foreigner is actually at the other extreme - it's serious to a fault.