Old Movies: The Fourth Protocol

[DraconisRex]

Anyone (besides me) seen the movie "The Fourth Protocol"? It came out in 1987, and stars Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan. I'd never heard of it before, but found it at a used video store.

I'd give it a 9/10. What worries me is that it was feasible at the time....

From the Video Jacket:

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In an undercover plot to destroy NATO, the KGB plans to annihilate a peaceful English residential area and a US Air Force base. Their diabolical weapons: a miniature but high-yield atomic bomb that has been smuggled into the area in nine innocent-looking pieces, and their most murderous agent (Pierce Brosnan) who has assembled and armed this hellish device.

Only one member of British Intelligence (Michael Caine) senses the impending havoc but his break-the-rules methods have led to banishment from Her Majesty's service, mysterious rebuffs from his former superiors, and ever-looming death threats.

Based on the best selling novel by Frederick Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol is packed with action and betrayal, breathtaking danger, and the ever-shifting deceptions that lead to the success or failure of the deadliest cold war act ever conceived.

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It's a little better, in my opinion, than The Sum Of All Fears, although I thought that was better than what the critics rated it.

[Starfighter08]

I saw it a few years ago on TV. I liked the movie pretty much since it has everything a good spy movie needs.