Affection, revenge and political intrigue

Pedro 2022-04-22 07:01:31

A friend recommended me to watch Jackie Chan's "British Showdown" before, but I was limited by the traditional impression of Jackie Chan martial arts action films, so I didn't watch it at that time. I watched it yesterday, and overall I liked it, and I also felt that Jackie Chan dared to break through himself. Although the movie itself was not perfect, it was remarkable and very good. From the main line of the story, on the one hand, Jackie Chan's 60-year-old father avenges his daughter, and on the other hand, there is a political conspiracy and terrorist attack between Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom. As other netizens said, the integration of these two story lines is not very good, and there is still a sense of separation. At the beginning of the story, it was explained that a terrorist attack launched by a political conspiracy killed the daughter of the protagonist Guan. After ten minutes of seeing it, I knew it was a story of revenge. Then, with the appearance of the first deputy minister of the political figure, the political conspiracy was opened. the prologue. Jackie Chan changed his previous style in the movie and played an old man who lost his wife and two daughters. Most of the time, his face was withered and decadent, but even so, the image of revenge was very moving, especially when his daughter died. Afterwards, she lost her mind in her daughter's room, looking at the desk and clothes that her daughter had not packed at all, as if her daughter would come back after just going out for a while. An old old father lost his only daughter's only relative, knowing that she would never show up and never come back. He could only smell his daughter's smell by smelling his daughter's clothes. This is really impressive.

Rare.

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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.