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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The Seattle TimesJohn HartlThe Seattle TimesJohn Hartl[Martin Campbell's] a master at rejuvenating tired warhorses, and he pulls it off again with this one.
- When it comes to the action scenes, Campbell’s unfussy style works well with Chan’s choreography.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterClarence TsuiThe Hollywood ReporterClarence TsuiWhile Brosnan has quite a few opportunities to show his acting chops, Chan makes do with less.... In any case, it’s good to see Chan swapping his happy-go-lucky persona for two hours for some gravitas as a tragic rogue with a marked past.
- 60VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe Foreigner amounts to an above-average but largely by-the-numbers action movie in which Chan does battle with generic thugs and shadowy political forces.
- 60New York Daily NewsEthan SacksNew York Daily NewsEthan SacksNow that’s a kick in the head: A Western filmmaker is taking Jackie Chan seriously. The Foreigner, however, takes him a little too seriously.
- 50ConsequenceClint WorthingtonConsequenceClint WorthingtonDespite the bait-and-switch of Chan’s limited presence in the film, The Foreigner is slightly better than it appears on paper. Chan and Brosnan offer believable, intense performances, and Campbell coaxes Chan’s style into an abrasive brutality with moments of occasional invention.
- 50Chicago TribuneKatie WalshChicago TribuneKatie WalshDespite its literary origins, the film feels a bit like a writer tossed a few darts at a board labeled with aging action stars and various terrorist groups and just decided to make it work.
- 42IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichThe two plot strands are ostensibly linked by an act of indiscriminate violence, but they’re so clumsily threaded together that it just calls attention to the stitch-work.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreWhatever action Bond, Zorro and “Green Lantern” vet Martin Campbell cooks up...none of it involves urgency.
- 30The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyMr. Chan is in his early 60s, and he doesn’t deliver the action pizazz here that he used to. Nor, frankly, does he summon enough gravitas to be persuasive in the role of a grief-maddened father. For what it’s worth, Mr. Brosnan, as Quon’s nemesis, sells the angry-all-the-time requirement for his character.