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| J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors | Release Date: August 28, 1987 |
Starring:
Anton Rodgers, Caroline Blakiston, Ian Richardson, Joanna Cassidy, Julian Glover, Michael Caine, Michael Gough, Ned Beatty, Pierce Brosnan, Ray McAnally
Summary:
John Preston (Michael Caine) is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.
The Fourth Protocol is first-rate because it not only is a thriller, but it also pays attention to its characters and shows how their actions grow out of their personalities. Like Michael Caine's other recent British spy film, "The Whistle Blower," it is effective not simply because it's a thriller but also because for long stretches it simply is a very absorbing drama.
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The movie is entertaining on a
rudimentary, never-to-be-taken-seriously level. On the rare occasions when
it does rise above the material, it's because Pierce Brosnan is chillingly
effective as an assassin with the body temperature of a snake. [26 Aug 1987]
As The Fourth Protocol begins at the outside and curls its way into the center of its wildly complex plot, it becomes almost a "Saturday Night Live" spy spoof. We're saturated with detail: Where will the nested Russian folk-art dolls, the visiting violinist's patent-leather shoes and the American Air Force officer's randy wife fit into the Greater Scheme of Things? Gradually, as our eyes glaze over, it becomes very hard to care--and even harder to suppress a giggle.
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