Rotten
What is missing is any real tension or psychological detail that might lend plausibility to all the hocus-pocus about East-West political and military intrigue.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
The Fourth Protocol
If the Fourth Protocol is ever breached, there would be no warning, just a nuclear explosion from a bedsitter... The unthinkable has just begun.
1987 · 1h 59m · R
Action, Thriller
Directed by
John Mackenzie
Overview
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.
Director and cast
- John Mackenzie Director
- Michael Caine as John Preston
- Pierce Brosnan as Valeri Petrofsky / James Edward Ross
- Ray McAnally as Karpov
- Ned Beatty as Borisov
- Joanna Cassidy as Irina Vassilievna
- Julian Glover as Brian Harcourt-Smith
- Michael Gough as Sir Bernard Hemmings
- Anton Rodgers as George Berenson
- Ian Richardson Cast
- Caroline Blakiston Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
74%
Tomatometer
Fresh
''The Fourth Protocol'' is an entertaining, better-than-average variation on a format that has long since stopped offering anything new.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
An engrossing and thoroughly enjoyable adaptation of the bestselling spy thriller by Frederick Forsyth. n engrossing and thoroughly enjoyable adaptation of the bestselling spy thriller by Frederick Forsyth.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Fresh
"Protocol" is espionage as exhilarating as the better Bond but with less of the winky camp. This is deadly stuff: We see just how easy atomic terrorism would be.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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