After Quan ambushes Hennessy in his house, the latter contacts his nephew Sean Morrison, a former Royal Irish Regiment soldier, in the hope that Morrison's tracking skills can be used to stop Quan. Hennessy also investigates Quan's background and discovers he was a former guerrilla fighter who was recruited by US special forces in Vietnam. Tending to his wounds, Quan recalls his escape from Vietnam in which his first two daughters were kidnapped and killed by Thai pirates, before he and his wife reached Singapore. As Hennessy's henchmen attempt to track him, Quan uses traps to disable them but is shot in the shoulder and flees. Quan then brings the fight to Hennessy, hiding in the trees outside Hennessy's farmhouse and attacking it with more explosives. Hennessy's men find Quan at his guesthouse but he fights them off and escapes. Quan observes Hennessy with his mistress, Maggie, and photographs them kissing in a restaurant. He orders that known IRA weapons dumps be searched for missing explosives, but the Authentic IRA catches on and outwits him. Under pressure from the British government and hoping to shore up his political position ahead of upcoming Northern Irish Assembly elections, Hennessy tries to identify the culprits with help from his contacts. Hennessy tells his men to find Quan and stop him. Quan does not believe him, and first sets off a homemade bomb in Hennessy's building before leaving a fake explosive on Hennessy's car as warnings, threatening worse unless he gets the bombers' names. Quan seeks out Hennessy at his office but Hennessy claims to have no knowledge of the bombing or its perpetrators before ejecting him from the premises. Quan purchases items to make homemade weapons and travels to Belfast, leaving the restaurant under Lam's control. Undeterred, Quan takes matters into his own hands and focuses next on the Northern Ireland deputy First Minister and Sinn Féin politician Liam Hennessy, who speaks publicly about his status as a former Provisional IRA leader while outwardly claiming to condemn the attack. Bromley advises Quan to be patient and warns him against going after the IRA. Quan takes to visiting Scotland Yard daily, asking for names of the bombers, but is told by police chief Commander Bromley that his repeated visits are diverting resources away from the investigation. An Irish republican group calling itself the "Authentic IRA" claims responsibility. When Fan is killed in a terrorist bombing, Quan seeks revenge. Ngoc Minh Quan, a widowed former Vietnam War special operations forces soldier, runs a Chinese restaurant in London with his business partner Lam and his teenage daughter Fan. It received generally favourable reviews from critics, with praise for the action sequences, score and against type performances of Chan and Brosnan, but criticism towards the formulaic action thriller plot. The film grossed $145 million at the worldwide box office and was one of 2018's top ten most-watched Netflix original films in the UK. The Foreigner was released in China on 30 September 2017, in the United States on 13 October 2017, distributed by STXfilms, and in the United Kingdom in December 2017 on Netflix. The film follows a British- Nung Chinese man who seeks vengeance for the death of his youngest daughter. An American-British-Chinese co-production, it stars Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan, Michael McElhatton, Liu Tao, Charlie Murphy, Orla Brady, and Katie Leung. The Foreigner is a 2017 action thriller film directed by Martin Campbell and written by David Marconi, based on the 1992 novel The Chinaman by Stephen Leather.
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