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hey mojo holux welcome to mojo at the
movies I am Rebecca and with me as
always is movie reviewer Eric Cohen who
is here to give us his takeaways on
Jackie Chan’s the foreigner the
foreigner I’m very excited Jackie Chan’s
returned to action I know a lot of mojo
holic so excited and we’re gonna talk
takeaways like things that were a little
bit surprising when I saw the movie and
I think the first and foremost Jackie
Chan can act I was surprised when you
told me that I was like that’s not what
I think of when I think of him well it’s
not to say that he’s a bad actor per se
but it’s it’s just that when like you
say when we think of Jackie Chan we
think of action we think of comedy we
think of Mislav stick style yeah but
here none of that applies this is a very
serious role for Jackie Chan he almost
gets emo at one point so to back up the
story is he plays Kwan a 60 year old
single father living in London he has a
restaurant his daughter goes in to buy a
dress in a store and mmm the store
explodes and then he’s out for revenge
and he ends up going to pierce brosnan
who plays a politician who used to have
ties to the IRA and it turns out that
this bombing the responsibility is taken
by the authentic IRA some kind of
offshoot of the IRA and so Jackie Chan
wants the names of the Bombers and he
goes to Pierce Brosnan and he says I
want names and then the rest is kind of
this weird cat-and-mouse game between
Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan oh yeah I
know you’re saying that it’s not typical
Jackie Chan action but what is the
action like well it’s you know it is
much more bare-bones straight ahead
action you know gone are the days of
Jackie Chan using a you know a ladder as
a weapon or a hat or a dress or anything
like that that whole slapstick style is
gone there’s very little in the way of
martial arts this is just kind of
punches and kicks and and you know you
know more American style action then you
would normally see in a Jackie Chan
movie and it’s also when he directs his
own movies there is that Hong Kong style
of you know when when the hits happen
you see it twice in American style
editing they almost edit out the hit so
you see the hit coming and then you’re
already onto the neck
frame and so you really get a different
sense of urgency of the action here and
also there’s none of the kind of blooper
reel of the stunts at the end so Jackie
Chan is is it’s much more straight ahead
and as far as action which was
surprising because I thought you know
you go to see a Jackie Chan movie for
Jackie Chan yeah
so no Jackie Chan bones were broken what
is hard oh I like that
okay that’s absolutely right anyway TM
the setting is you know the movie it’s
focused on terrorism yeah but it’s not
the Terrorism that were concerned with
exactly it’s not the current kind of
terrorism it is IRA and it happens now
but it’s you know that there’s no you
know talk of Isis or anything like that
although at one point in the movie a bus
a double-decker bus explodes on a London
Bridge and that that was a little bit
uncomfortable that was a little bit
current but yes the setting of the IRA
and you know it just provided a really
good backdrop for this movie and there
was a lot more in fact Pierce Brosnan
does a great job as this kind of he’s
really grizzled and and and he’s much
older in this movie and he’s not suave
like James Bond but he III feel that the
movie focused more on Pierce Brosnan
than it actually does on Jackie Chan and
so in terms of the political thriller
style that really worked well right yeah
so it’s directed by Martin Campbell who
had worked with Pierce Brosnan
previously that’s right the two of them
worked on Goldeneye together and Martin
Campbell also did a Casino Royale so
he’s got a definitive style I don’t know
if I would say it’s necessarily James
Bond style I mean he also did Green
Lantern he did vertical limit he did the
Zorro movies
no not cliff I whatever I think the
vertical limit I think it’s cliff and
not the same thing so it’s not exactly a
James Bond movie I would say it’s more
it’s taken this is this is Jackie Chan’s
Liam Neeson moment he’s out for revenge
he’s stoic he’s serious and he wants
names and he wants to get revenge and
throw in a little bit of Rambo in there
because at one point he’s kind of
hiding out in the forest and setting
traps and stuff like that so I mean for
fans of Jackie Chan it’s different it
might not be what you’re expecting but
it’s it’s still quite a good movie and I
think the interplay like I said between
Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan is it’s
it’s well done cool I think it might
have a bit more in common with his some
of his Hong Kong more serious movies his
American yes this is not Shanghai
Shanghai Knights but Shanghai Boogie
Nights yeah that would be an interesting
it’s not that it’s not rush hour there’s
no joy in this movie so you know don’t
go in expecting laughs don’t go it go in
expecting to smile but if you’re into
kind of like dark political thrillers
and you want to see Jackie Chan Jackie
Chan shed a tear that’s hard to say then
this is the movie to see awesome thank
you so much Eric and thank you guys for
watching we’ll see you next time on mojo
at the movies it was safe here
I wouldn’t count on it
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yes thank you do you
hey mojo holux welcome to mojo at the
movies I am Rebecca and with me as
always is movie reviewer Eric Cohen who
is here to give us his takeaways on
Jackie Chan’s the foreigner the
foreigner I’m very excited Jackie Chan’s
returned to action I know a lot of mojo
holic so excited and we’re gonna talk
takeaways like things that were a little
bit surprising when I saw the movie and
I think the first and foremost Jackie
Chan can act I was surprised when you
told me that I was like that’s not what
I think of when I think of him well it’s
not to say that he’s a bad actor per se
but it’s it’s just that when like you
say when we think of Jackie Chan we
think of action we think of comedy we
think of Mislav stick style yeah but
here none of that applies this is a very
serious role for Jackie Chan he almost
gets emo at one point so to back up the
story is he plays Kwan a 60 year old
single father living in London he has a
restaurant his daughter goes in to buy a
dress in a store and mmm the store
explodes and then he’s out for revenge
and he ends up going to pierce brosnan
who plays a politician who used to have
ties to the IRA and it turns out that
this bombing the responsibility is taken
by the authentic IRA some kind of
offshoot of the IRA and so Jackie Chan
wants the names of the Bombers and he
goes to Pierce Brosnan and he says I
want names and then the rest is kind of
this weird cat-and-mouse game between
Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan oh yeah I
know you’re saying that it’s not typical
Jackie Chan action but what is the
action like well it’s you know it is
much more bare-bones straight ahead
action you know gone are the days of
Jackie Chan using a you know a ladder as
a weapon or a hat or a dress or anything
like that that whole slapstick style is
gone there’s very little in the way of
martial arts this is just kind of
punches and kicks and and you know you
know more American style action then you
would normally see in a Jackie Chan
movie and it’s also when he directs his
own movies there is that Hong Kong style
of you know when when the hits happen
you see it twice in American style
editing they almost edit out the hit so
you see the hit coming and then you’re
already onto the neck
frame and so you really get a different
sense of urgency of the action here and
also there’s none of the kind of blooper
reel of the stunts at the end so Jackie
Chan is is it’s much more straight ahead
and as far as action which was
surprising because I thought you know
you go to see a Jackie Chan movie for
Jackie Chan yeah
so no Jackie Chan bones were broken what
is hard oh I like that
okay that’s absolutely right anyway TM
the setting is you know the movie it’s
focused on terrorism yeah but it’s not
the Terrorism that were concerned with
exactly it’s not the current kind of
terrorism it is IRA and it happens now
but it’s you know that there’s no you
know talk of Isis or anything like that
although at one point in the movie a bus
a double-decker bus explodes on a London
Bridge and that that was a little bit
uncomfortable that was a little bit
current but yes the setting of the IRA
and you know it just provided a really
good backdrop for this movie and there
was a lot more in fact Pierce Brosnan
does a great job as this kind of he’s
really grizzled and and and he’s much
older in this movie and he’s not suave
like James Bond but he III feel that the
movie focused more on Pierce Brosnan
than it actually does on Jackie Chan and
so in terms of the political thriller
style that really worked well right yeah
so it’s directed by Martin Campbell who
had worked with Pierce Brosnan
previously that’s right the two of them
worked on Goldeneye together and Martin
Campbell also did a Casino Royale so
he’s got a definitive style I don’t know
if I would say it’s necessarily James
Bond style I mean he also did Green
Lantern he did vertical limit he did the
Zorro movies
no not cliff I whatever I think the
vertical limit I think it’s cliff and
not the same thing so it’s not exactly a
James Bond movie I would say it’s more
it’s taken this is this is Jackie Chan’s
Liam Neeson moment he’s out for revenge
he’s stoic he’s serious and he wants
names and he wants to get revenge and
throw in a little bit of Rambo in there
because at one point he’s kind of
hiding out in the forest and setting
traps and stuff like that so I mean for
fans of Jackie Chan it’s different it
might not be what you’re expecting but
it’s it’s still quite a good movie and I
think the interplay like I said between
Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan is it’s
it’s well done cool I think it might
have a bit more in common with his some
of his Hong Kong more serious movies his
American yes this is not Shanghai
Shanghai Knights but Shanghai Boogie
Nights yeah that would be an interesting
it’s not that it’s not rush hour there’s
no joy in this movie so you know don’t
go in expecting laughs don’t go it go in
expecting to smile but if you’re into
kind of like dark political thrillers
and you want to see Jackie Chan Jackie
Chan shed a tear that’s hard to say then
this is the movie to see awesome thank
you so much Eric and thank you guys for
watching we’ll see you next time on mojo
at the movies it was safe here
I wouldn’t count on it
check out these other great clips from
watch mojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
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