The Fourth Protocol (1987)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1987
	Director: John Mackenzie
	Actors: Michael Caine (Zulu, The Dark Knight 1-3, Harry Brown), Pierce Brosnan (Dante's Peak, Mars Attacks!), Ned Beatty (Deliverance)
	Country: GB
	Genre: Polar, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 26.05.2015, DVD, Home cinema
Synopsis: John Preston (Caine) is a British agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK.
Review: I heard about this movie in an article about Kingsman: The Secret Service and Michael Caine's career in British spy movies. The movie, adapted from a novel, is not bad and well-timed as it was released towards the end of the Cold War. It reminds me a bit of the adaptation of Tom's Clancy adventures of Jack Ryan in The Sum of All Fears but with a reduced scope of course, the movie being British and not American. The stories of the characters played by Cain and Brosnan (as a Russian agent surprisingly) progress slowly in parallel until the final confrontation of course. One thing that disturbed me about this movie though: everybody speaks English, even people in Russia! I think this was typical of that period, nowadays movie-makers prefer to add a bit of foreign language for realism (or exoticism) and rather add an American character in the group to justify the continuous use of English. It is otherwise a nice European Spy movie, in a different style than the French ones with Lino Ventura like Le Silencieux (1973) or La 7ème cible (1984).
Rating: 7 /10