The Foreigner

Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan star in The Foreigner, an action thriller drama that relies more on the performances than huge action scenes. Not to say the action scenes aren't great, they are, it's just that director Martin Campbell focuses more on Chan and Brosnan playing roles completely opposite to what they usually do. Chan plays a former Chinese special forces soldier whose daughter is killed by an IRA bombing with Brosnan as a former IRA member who may have ties to recent attacks. While the story itself is nothing that new it at least is told very well even if at times can be a bit cliche. The strongest part of the film is Jackie Chan proving how powerful of a performance he can give without being comedic or relying on over the top stunts using weird everyday objects to fight with. Brosnan, though not the villain, works really well as an antagonistic supporting role who has a questionable past but tries to do whatever he can to stop the next generation of the IRA. The fight sequences themselves though basic are still choreographed and filmed in such a majestic way that is both the same and new for Chan. One of the biggest problems the film does have is that it's marketed as a Jackie Chan film, but he appears less than Brosnan does. I don't actually mind that, I just wish the marketing was more clear about all that, though Chan is still perfect in it. Over all: 87%
2017 top lists so far:
1. Baby Driver
2. It
3. Wonder Woman
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
5. Logan
6. Spider-Man: Homecoming
7. Blade Runner 2049
8. Dunkirk
9. War for the Planet of the Apes
10. Alien: Covenant
11. John Wick: Chapter 2
12. The Lego Batman Movie
13. Saban's Power Rangers
14. The Foreigner
15. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
16. Kong: Skull Island
17. Split
18. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
19. The Fate of the Furious
20. Beauty and the Beast 2017
21. Transformers: The Last Knight