Excellent work in the post-Jackie Chan era

Maeve 2022-04-20 09:01:44

The accident was not bad. When it was released, I forgot why I didn't watch it. I was looking forward to seeing the preview. I like the story of revenge. Looking at the whole drama, I feel sorry for Hennessy. From the very beginning, I thought that he should be the mastermind behind the bombing, and used it as a political bargaining chip to negotiate with the UK to release the Irish prisoner, and to obtain it through the internal investigation of the bombing. The inventory and management of all the organization's arms, I didn't expect that in the end he was really a quasi-dove. Although it was unexpected, it was reasonable, because he was shut down several times to bomb his office and farm, and he just ordered his subordinates to arrest him. It was just him and he was kicked out of Belfast, but the British cabinet and the US counter-terrorism organization who had picked up the leak had intended to assassinate him...

Jackie Chan did not have the most scenes this time, but he interprets a veteran soldier who has suffered old age and lost his daughter well. Although he is already in his sixties, he is older than himself After all, to express his past experience and state of mind at that time, the movie also shows his skills quite restrained and makes a reasonable foreshadowing - a retired soldier who was born in the special forces and participated in the war, his past also As the plot develops, the audience is gradually informed that despite restraint, he still dedicates several good-looking chase and fight scenes, especially the fight with Hennessy's nephew in the jungle, and reproduces his style in the kung fu comedy back then— - Flexible and adaptable, good at using various props. It's just that a nostalgic audience like me, when I saw him staggered out of the roof and escaped along the pole, couldn't help but think of a similar scene before, a little sad, time is fair to everyone. I liked the setting that he solved the terrorists at the end. If he took a step forward, the British police might have been wiped out in one fell swoop. As a bystander, I thought how good it would be to leave it to the police to deal with, but as a man with a strong will who lost his young daughter The former special forces father, I think he is very willing to use his own methods to take revenge, which is also the main line of the film.

Finally, I want to say that terrorists are the cancer of the world. Their faces in the movie are disgusting. Combined with the current explosion in Sri Lanka, it is so fitting for the Central Six to choose to broadcast this movie. Any terrorist forces should be eliminated from the source. , do not give them a chance to revive!

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The Foreigner quotes

  • Liam Hennessy: You killed my dog.

    Quan Ngoc Minh: Dog's fine. Just sleeping.

  • Quan Ngoc Minh: [opens coat] I'm wearing a bomb. Anyone comes in, I touch it one, then we die. Now, give me the names.

    Liam Hennessy: They claim to be IRA, but I don't know who they really are. I'm doin' everything I can to find out who's responsible.

    Quan Ngoc Minh: [puts gun to Hennessy's head] You're lying! Who killed my daughter?

    Liam Hennessy: I'm sorry! I truly don't know yet!

    Quan Ngoc Minh: [pause] The explosive the bombers use, it's Semtex-H?

    Liam Hennessy: [nervous] Yes. Yes. You know about Semtex?

    Quan Ngoc Minh: I know Semtex-H. During the war Czechs make for the army. Good for bombs and traps.

    Liam Hennessy: In Vietnam?

    Quan Ngoc Minh: Yes. Many American people died by Semtex-H. Now, IRA use to kill my daughter. That's ironic.

    Liam Hennessy: I've read your history. We both know about war. We've both tried to put it behind us. You and me, we're alike.

    Quan Ngoc Minh: [backhands Hennessy in the face] We are NOTHING alike. You're NOTHING! You kill women and children! NAMES!

    Liam Hennessy: To Almighty God, I don't know!

    Quan Ngoc Minh: [cocks the gun]

    Liam Hennessy: WAIT! Wait! I've set a trap for them when they use the next bomb. When they claim responsibility for the next bombing, they'll use a code word, telling the police they're IRA. I've changed that code word. So when they use it, I'll know.

    Quan Ngoc Minh: [lowers the gun] You have one day.

    Liam Hennessy: ...what if they don't set off a bomb by then?

    Quan Ngoc Minh: Twenty-four hours.

    [leaves]

    Liam Hennessy: ...Jesus. Oh, Jesus, sweet Jesus.