Title:
Fourth Protocol, The
Released: 1987
Genre: Thriller
Runtime: 119 min
Country: UK
Language: English
Plot
Summary: Caine plays a senior British administrator
who is part of the intelligence establishment. When
his findings offend his superiors he is reassigned
to a customs post. While there he finds odd things
showing up, which might well be parts of a small nuclear
device. A Russian agent has been sent to England with
instructions to assemble the device just prior to
the British election next to an American Air Base
in order to throw the election to Labor and get Britain
out of NATO.
Comments:
An
excellent thriller. Doc Who has this all wrong. This
film is not "about a KGB agent sent to destroy
england and eliminate NATO", nor is it an action
film. It is instead a very well crafted thriller about
the politics of the cold war and the continual power
struggles within government, in this instance the
Soviet government. The nuclear device which would
"destroy about 2sq miles" was merely designed
to bring about the removal of US bases within England
and destabilize NATO. The film is more about political
repercussions than it is about explosions, a point
which some viewers obviously missed.
Michael
Caine gives his usual solid performance and Pierce
Brosnan doesn't embarrass himself as the ruthless
Soviet agent. My only criticism of this film would
be that the final few scenes fail to provide the conclusion
that the story deserved. 8/10
Cast
overview:
Michael Caine .... John Preston
Pierce Brosnan .... Valeri Petrofsky/James Edward
Ross
Ned Beatty .... Borisov/Pavel Petrovic
Joanna Cassidy .... Vassilievna
Julian Glover .... Brian Harcourt-Smith
Michael Gough .... Sir Bernard Hemmings
Ray McAnally .... General Karpov
Ian Richardson .... Sir Nigel Irvine
Anton Rodgers .... George Berenson
Caroline Blakiston .... Angela Berenson
Joseph Brady .... Carmichael
Betsy Brantley .... Eileen McWhirter
Sean Chapman .... Captain Lyndhurst
Matt Frewer .... Tom McWhirter
Jerry Harte .... Professor Krilov
Movie
scenes preview:
Scene #1
Scene
Description:
Joanna Cassidy having sex with a guy and then having
him roll off her to give us a long look at her breast
and occasionally her nipple while laying there in thought
from The Fourth Protocol.
featured
actress:
Scene #2
Scene
Description:
Joanna Cassidy in a collage of clips of her laying in
a bathtub dead with her left breast sticking out.
featured
actress:
