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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302816150 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 6302816157 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: December 13, 1993 Running Time: 119 minutes Sales Rank: 9980 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: August 28, 1987
Amazon.com: Frederick Forsyth wrote the novel and screenplay for this story about a plot to stage an enormous nuclear accident in England, a catastrophe so large that its source can never be identified but will lead to assumptions that America is behind it. Michael Caine plays an aging intelligence agent who picks up clues that the ingredients for such an apocalypse are being smuggled piece-by-piece into the U.K.--but he cannot seem to get his superiors to care. Caine is outstanding in a role that seems tailor-made for him, and Pierce Brosnan is very good as the Russian agent working undercover in England to effect the planned tragedy. The film perfectly captures a spreading suspicion and resentment toward superpower adventurism, even though such sentiments are, in fact, being exploited by the bad guys. Caine, as always, suggests a man walking a narrow line through a gauntlet of moral compromises. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - The Fourth Protocol
We received this DVD and were disappointed to find that it was not for this region and the language was spanish.
We emailed the supplier, davede, and returned the product to them on October 7th, requiring a US Postal Service Delivery Confirmation Receipt.
We are waiting for a refund.
Len Tranter
Rating: - Don't rent THIS verision
While this is a reasonably enjoyable bit of spy vs. spy escapism, the quality of this rental download is pathetic. I rented this film to watch on my laptop during a recent airline trip and frankly, I was a bit shocked. It's quite obviously been transferred from a twenty year old edited for TV analog video tape complete with choppy breaks for commercials and awful audio and video quality.
Amazon should really be embarrassed to offer (let alone charge money for) this version. This is certainly not what customers expect when they rent or purchase an Unbox Video. (Thankfully, it's the ... Read More
Rating: - Absorbing thriller!
A Russian pilot is disposed to reaffirm his noble patriotism setting off a nuclear weapon near an American base in U.K. Michael Caine will be the assigned officer in order to foil this brutal incident that would visibly alter the delicate terror' s equilibrium. In sum a pretty good spy thriller, where Pierce Brosnan reaffirmed his own style as a promissory actor, after his successful brief cameo in 1980 with The long good Friday. It's not mere casualty John Mackenzie had been the same director in both films.
Based on the famous novel of Frederick Forsyth (The day of the jackal)
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Rating: - DVD available in Region 2 of suspenseful thriller
In the 1960s Michael Caine appeared in a series of spy movies as Len Deighton's fictional cold war hero Harry Palmer. Then in 1986 Caine appeared again in much the same mold except in this instance, since it was based on a book by Frederick Forsyth, his character had a different name, even though in image and style he was very much a Palmer clone.
Forsyth has had a number of his works adapted into movies. In the 1970s we had such classics as THE ODESSA FILE and DAY OF THE JACKAL and even Christopher Walken fresh off his Oscar for THE DEER HUNTER appeared in 1980s DOGS OF WAR based on another ... Read More
Rating: - Great Movie But no DVD
I saw this movie when it first came out. Loved it. Why Why Why no one has put this to DVD i'll never know? I'll have to keep waiting I guess.
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