2017 · action · thriller · crime
The Foreigner
Directed by Martin Campbell1h 54m2017
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
Our read: The Foreigner (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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