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28 August 1987 (USA) moreTagline:
If the Fourth Protocol is ever breached, there would be no warning, just a nuclear explosion from a bedsitter...The unthinkable has just begun...Plot:
KGB agent, Major Valeri Petrofsky has been reassigned at the request of the KGB Chairman for a secret mission... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 nomination moreUser Comments:
absorbing thriller moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Michael Caine | ... | John Preston | |
| Pierce Brosnan | ... | Valeri Petrofsky / James Edward Ross | |
| Ned Beatty | ... | Borisov / Pavel Petrovic | |
| Joanna Cassidy | ... | Irina 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 |
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Iceland:14 | Australia:M | Netherlands:12 (2002) | Netherlands:16 (VHS/DVD rating) (2001) | Finland:K-16 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16Fun Stuff
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Revealing mistakes: The armorer only loaded one blank into Ross's pistol before he shoots Irina in bed after their tryst, as the slide is seen to lock back on firing, indicating a now empty magazine. moreQuotes:
George Berenson: [George just found out that his South African contact is a Russian spy] Oh my God... what have I done?Sir Nigel Irvine: You've betrayed your country. You've passed on untold numbers of military secrets to Moscow, and endangered the lives of British men and women. And I'd say you've weakened NATO. Perhaps irretrievably.
George Berenson: Oh my God...
Sir Nigel Irvine: Just you, and your schoolboy politics, and your idiotically conceited faith in your own importance.
[pause]
Sir Nigel Irvine: Now some of our more muscular colleagues would like to lock you in a cell and go to work on you with a carving knife and a pair of pliers. The rest would like to feed you to the newspapers and throw whatever's left into prison for 20 years. It's a tricky choice.
[Smiles ever so slightly, pauses]
Sir Nigel Irvine: However, this is what you will do. You shall resume your special relationship with Moscow, but this time I will be supplying the papers. Do you understand?
[George nods]
Sir Nigel Irvine: And later, when you are finished, we will decide what to do with you.
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I was quite surprised to see that this movie got a 5.9 rating. I think that it's a lot better than that. Brosnan is good, the plot is sufficiently tricky to be interesting, and Caine delivers the kind of reliable, excellent performance that you can count on (at least when the movie isn't total junk -- he only seems to phone it in when the movie is entirely hopeless). The ending is a little abrupt, but I can't find any fault with it other than that. (The cast is uniformly strong, too.) Maybe people underrate the movie because the movie is low-budget. It looks like a British TV-movie, and maybe it was, but I find it easy to get past the production values when the acting is good.
I've seen it twice, and it holds up to a second viewing.