The Foreigner (2017)

Grief can awaken parts of ourselves we thought were long buried. Martin Campbell's "The Foreigner," adapted from Stephen Leather's novel "The Chinaman," stars Jackie Chan as Quan, a humble London restaurant owner whose only remaining family, his teenage daughter, is killed in a bombing claimed by a splinter group calling itself the Authentic IRA. Desperate for answers, Quan turns to Liam Hennessy (Pierce Brosnan), Northern Ireland's deputy first minister and a former IRA member, convinced he knows who's responsible. As Hennessy stonewalls him, insisting he has no idea who planted the bomb, Quan's own long-hidden past as a highly trained special forces operative resurfaces, drawing the two into a tense game of cat and mouse. Quan sets off a homemade bomb in Hennessy's office building as a warning, then follows him to his remote farmhouse in Northern Ireland, where he takes on Hennessy's men in the woods. Meanwhile, Hennessy wrestles with political rivals, a restless wife and the threat of more bombings in London, as the police scramble to find the terrorists. Both stars deliver strong performances, and Brosnan is especially good as a politician caught between his past and his future. Chan shows a darker, more dramatic side you've rarely seen.