The Fourth Protocol

1987
R
1h 59m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,5/10

11 k

MA NOTE

Pierce Brosnan and Michael Caine in The Fourth Protocol (1987)

John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.

Liretrailer2 min 20 s

2 vidéos

41 photos

Dark Comedy Spy Thriller

Au Royaume-Uni, John Preston est un agent britannique chargé d'empêcher les Russes de déclencher une explosion nucléaire à côté d'une base américaine. Les Russes espèrent que cela anéantira ... Tout lireAu Royaume-Uni, John Preston est un agent britannique chargé d'empêcher les Russes de déclencher une explosion nucléaire à côté d'une base américaine. Les Russes espèrent que cela anéantira la « relation spéciale » entre les deux pays.Au Royaume-Uni, John Preston est un agent britannique chargé d'empêcher les Russes de déclencher une explosion nucléaire à côté d'une base américaine. Les Russes espèrent que cela anéantira la « relation spéciale » entre les deux pays.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,5/10

11 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 1 nomination au total

Vidéos2

Trailer 2:20

Trailer

Clip 3:00

The Fourth Protocol Clip

Clip 3:00

The Fourth Protocol Clip

Photos41

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Histoire

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Anecdotes
Sir Michael Caine and author Frederick Forsyth had been friends for around ten years prior to this movie. In the three earlier filmed adaptations of Forsyth novels, Caine was never selected to be in them. So the two decided to raise the financing themselves, so as to make sure they could work on a movie together. The two are billed as executive producers on this movie.

Gaffes
In the NCO club, a US Air Force Chief Master Sargent is standing behind Ross with his hat on. When indoors and in uniform military members are required to remove their hats (except for armed guards and other special conditions). In most on-base clubs, this breach of protocol would require the offender to buy a round for the house.

Citations
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.
George Berenson: [very shakily] I'm very grateful, Nigel.

Autres versions
The version shown on British Television contains all the violence but is missing one entire scene involving Michael Caine knocking out two racially abusive skinheads on an underground train. The scene was reinstated for the BBC1 showing on 8th February 2006.

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Big Easy/The Fourth Protocol/No Way Out/Tampopo (1987)

Bandes originales
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 47
(uncredited)
(excerpt from 1st movement: Allegro moderato)
Composed by Jean Sibelius

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8/10

absorbing thriller

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.

hbs
26 juill. 1999
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Budget
- 6 000 000 $ US (estimation)
Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 12 423 831 $ US
Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
- 3 636 831 $ US
- 30 août 1987
Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 12 423 831 $ US