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Double O Jarry
The film where Pierce Brosnan (almost) plays Gerry Adams is on Netflix now
That’s the weekend viewing sorted, so.
THE FOREIGNER, THE film in which Pierce Brosnan plays Gerry Adams but doesn’t play Gerry Adams, has hit Netflix today.
The film stars Jackie Chan as a father whose daughter is killed in a bomb claimed by a group called the Authentic IRA.
Brosnan plays a former IRA member who is now an Irish “deputy minister”.
Chan thinks he may know about the bombing, Brosnan says he doesn’t – intrigue ensues.
Reviews for the film have been mixed to strong, with Forbes calling it “a fine action thriller”:
Brosnan delivers what he’s been giving us for the last 15 years (Tailor of Panama, November Man, No Escape, etc.), namely a grizzled, cynical, somewhat real-world version of a would-be government agent possibly gone to rot.
A quick glance at the trailer or the film shows one unexpected flaw – Brosnan’s accent.
As RogerEbert.com wrote:
Hennessy, an antihero defined by Brosnan’s atrocious Irish accent and a forehead peppered with liver spots that seem to proliferate with every extreme closeup, spends a lot of time on the phone, and drinking Scotch. He also does what every other Bourne-style government wonk does: repeatedly curse out his men about how they’re always a few steps behind the Authentic IRA, and Quan, the latter of whom has declared a personal war on Hennessy since the Irishman has previously worked with the IRA.
The film holds a 61% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
As for Adams, he was happy enough with the early photos:
Read: Pierce Brosnan looks VERY like Gerry Adams in his new film
