The Foreigner (2017)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Foreigner |
| Original title | The Foreigner |
| Country of production |
United Kingdom , United States , China |
| original language |
English , Mandarin |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martin Campbell |
| script | David Marconi |
| production |
Jackie Chan , Wayne Marc Godfrey , Claire Kupchak , D. Scott Lumpkin , Jamie Marshall , Qi Jian Hong , Arthur M. Sarkissian , Cathy Schulman , Maojun Zeng |
| music | Cliff Martinez |
| camera | David Tattersall |
| cut | Angela M. Catanzaro |
| occupation | |
The Foreigner is a British - American - Chinese feature film of director Martin Campbell from the year 2017 . It is the film adaptation of the novel The Chinaman by Stephen Leather . Jackie Chan as a restaurant owner of Chinese origin who wants revenge for the death of his daughter and Pierce Brosnan as his opponent are in the lead roles .
action
Quan Ngoc Minh, a Hoa Chinese, has lived in London , where he has run a restaurant, since he fled Vietnam when his wife and two of his three daughters were killed by pirates . When his daughter Fan dies in a bomb attack committed by an organization called the "Core IRA", his world collapses. The police are unable to trace those responsible for the attack. In response to Quan's constant inquiries, he is advised to be patient.
When he sees an interview on television with the politician Liam Hennessy, who was a former member of the IRA himself, he tries to find out from him who is responsible for the attack. Since Hennessy cannot help him by phone, Quan sets off to Belfast to visit Hennessy personally. After he has him thrown out of his office, Quan detonates a bomb in the toilet facility of the office building and installs a not yet activated car bomb in Hennessy's car to threaten him.
Meanwhile, Hennessy knows about the people behind the attack, but does not approve of the fact that people died. With the help of his nephew Sean, he works with the British police to track down the attackers. At the same time, he lets his people look for Quan, who can find him in a bed and breakfast but cannot overwhelm him. The politician then retreats to his country estate, where Quan follows him and sets fire to the horse stable to continue to exert pressure.
Meanwhile, Hennessy receives information from the British police that Quan was a feared Viet Cong fighter during the Vietnam War . Then he puts Sean, who served in the British Army , on Quan, who is hiding in the woods around the country estate.
When the police inform Hennessy that they have identified Hugh McGrath, who is temporarily at Hennessy's property, as the mastermind behind the attacks, he shoots McGrath before the police can arrest him. Before that he learned the names of the assassins from him, which he told Sean.
Quan, who overwhelms Sean, learns from him the names of the assassins who are still in London, where they are preparing another attack. Although the terrorists are under surveillance by the police, Quan manages to break into the apartment and kill the attackers. Only Maggie survives and tells the arriving police under torture the next planned assassination target before she is killed by the police. The next stop is a scheduled flight from London to Rome, which is used by numerous British politicians, including the British Prime Minister, to travel to a conference in Rome. Due to a flight delay, the police succeed in thwarting the attack at the airport at the last second; only limited property damage occurs.
In the end, Quan breaks into Hennessy's London apartment and forces him to post a photo on the internet of him kissing his lover Maggie - one of the terrorists.
Cast and dubbing
The Foreigner was dubbed for Neue Tonfilm München under the dialogue direction by Dominik Auer .
background
The Foreigner was filmed in London and the Northern Irish town of Larne . It had its premiere on September 24, 2017 in Beijing . The cost of the film was $ 35 million.
criticism
The film service assesses the film as a “hard revenge thriller that gains in profile by portraying its main characters as men who both cannot leave behind the equally fateful experiences of violence from their past and are caught up in the present . "
Web links
- The Foreigner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Foreigner at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The Foreigner at Metacritic (English)
- The Foreigner in the online film database
- The Foreigner in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Foreigner . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ a b The Foreigner. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on May 23, 2018 .
- ↑ locations. In: IMDb . Retrieved May 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Publication. In: IMDb . Retrieved May 23, 2018 .
- ↑ 'The Foreigner' Box Office: Jackie Chan Actioner Tops $ 100M Worldwide Forbes Magazine report, October 15, 2017, accessed January 19, 2019
- ↑ The Foreigner. In: Filmdienst . Retrieved May 23, 2018 .