Kuala Lampur, Jan. 22 -- My Shakespeare's a little rusty, but if I recall correctly in Hamlet the prince staged a play to "catch the conscience of the King."

The protagonist used art to draw out something very specific from life.

I'd like to suggest that Jackie Chan has been trying something similar for the past nine years or so.

I (and everyone else) first noticed it in The Foreigner (2017, director Martin Campbell).

Chan's character had just witnessed his daughter being killed in an IRA terror attack. His sorrow and pathos (not to mention wrath channelled against Pierce Brosnan's character) was something Chan fans have never really seen before.

One could even say that the main pulse of the movie was precisely the anguish of a paren...