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Name: The Foreigner
Director: Martin Campbell
Genre: action, crime, thriller
Released: 2017
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Rating: 7

The Foreigner has an iRankMovies score of 65.9/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

The Foreigner (2017)

Never push a good man too far.

Release:2017

Runtime:1h 54m

Country:China

Director:Martin Campbell

Language:English

Genre

ActionCrimeThriller

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Keywords

Martial Arts London EnglandBased On Novel Or BookRestaurant OwnerIra Irish Republican ArmyIrelandUnited KingdomBomb Explosion

iRank66

The Foreigner rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7/10· 132K votes

Rotten Tomatoes66%

Metacritic55%

TMDb6.97/10· 3K votes

With 66% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7/10 on IMDb and 55/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About The Foreigner

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.

Cast of The Foreigner

Pierce Brosnan
as Liam Hennessy
Jackie Chan
as Quan Ngoc Minh
Rory Fleck-Byrne
as Sean Morrison
Ray Fearon
as Commander Richard Bromley
Charlie Murphy
as Maggie / Sara McKay
Orla Brady
as Mary Hennessy
Michael McElhatton
as Jim Kavanagh
Lia Williams
as Katherine Davies
Dermot Crowley
as Hugh McGrath
Stephen Hogan
as Christy Murphy
Liu Tao
as Lam
Katie Leung
as Fan

The Foreigner facts

Budget: $35M
Box office: $145.4M

Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026Methodology Data sources

Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Grieving father revenge motivation provides emotional weight beneath action spectacle
•Counterterrorism procedural elements ground action thriller with realistic tactical detail
•Martin Campbell direction delivers taught action sequences with technical execution precision

What the audience disliked

•Revenge plot mechanics follow predictable action thriller formula somewhat closely
•Hidden past revelations feel dramatically undersold relative to action scene investment