Quan then brings the fight to Hennessy, hiding in the trees outside his farmhouse and attacking it with more explosives. Quan later observes Hennessy with his mistress Maggie and photographs them kissing in a restaurant. Hennessy's bodyguards, led by his right-hand-man, Jim Kavanagh, find Quan at his guesthouse but he fights them off and escapes. He orders that known IRA weapons dumps be searched for missing Semtex. Under pressure from the British government and hoping to shore up his position ahead of Northern Irish Assembly elections, Hennessy tries to identify the culprits with help from his former IRA comrades. Hennessy tells his men to find Quan and stop him. Quan does not believe him, and sets off a homemade bomb in Hennessy's building before leaving a fake explosive on Hennessy's car as warnings. Quan seeks out Hennessy at his office but Hennessy claims to have no knowledge of the 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 turns his attention to the Northern Ireland deputy First Minister and Sinn Féin politician Liam Hennessy, a former Provisional IRA leader who has since claimed to have renounced violence. 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 Commander Bromley that his visits are diverting resources away from the investigation. The British police discover an IRA codeword was used in the bombing and an Irish republican group calling itself the "Authentic IRA" claims responsibility. When his teenage daughter 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. 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 London-based Chinese Nùng man who seeks vengeance for the death of his youngest daughter. A British-Chinese-American 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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