The Fourth Protocol [Region 2] | ![The Fourth Protocol [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K262543BL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: John Mackenzie
Actors: Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty, Joanna Cassidy, Julian Glover
Studio: TF1 Vidéo
Category: DVD
Buy New: $24.19
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Seller: mediamash
Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 27206
Format: Anamorphic, Color, PAL
Languages: English (Original Language), Portuguese (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Unknown), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
EAN: 3384442001564
ASIN: B00004YRKM
Theatrical Release Date: August 28, 1987
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Portuguese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), Portuguese ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN, SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Making Of, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Scripted by Frederick Forsyth from his own novel, The Fourth Protocol is a fact-based spy thriller. The titular protocol is a secret agreement between America, Britain and Russia to cease smuggling nuclear weapons into their respective countries. This figures into the schemes of several rogue spies, who hope to destroy NATO by embarking on just such a smuggling endeavor. Russian agent Valeri Petrofsky (Pierce Brosnan) is ordered to stage a nuclear accident in England, then arrange the evidence to point to the Americans. British intelligence agent John Preston (Michael Caine) begins wondering why such nuclear-weapon components like lithium are showing up in the unlikeliest places. Ignored by his superiors, who figure that Preston is merely an old-line anti-Commie paranoic, Preston gathers the clues that will enable him to find out who's behind the potential breaking of The Fourth Protocol.
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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
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 Region 2 dvds can be fine........ February 2, 2010
Arkadin
the movie is in English people.
It was filmed in English. If you buy the region 2 version it will be just like buying a dvd in America except the artwork is in Spanish.
you also need a region free dvd player to play it.
these players are not expensive anymore.
It's not that hard to begin enjoying dvds from all over the world.
When English language, i.e. Hollywood movies are released in other countries they are in English.
It is only the artwork that is in the language of the country of origin.
 I AGREE!!! January 9, 2010
PogueMahone
I agree 100% with Raven. This is a taut suspenseful thriller, one of the best of it's genre. To not put this out on high-quality DVD in English or Blu-Ray is ridiculous. What Hollywood idiot makes these decisions???
 Breaking Protocol... September 24, 2009
darklordzden (Australia)
The Mid Eighties: Deep within the Soviet Union, star of the "illegals" directorate, Major Valerie Petrofsky (Pierce Brosnan), is seconded to take part in a secret mission under the auspice of hard-line KGB chief, Gevorshin (Alan North). The nature of the mission is so potentially incendiary that it has already resulted in the execution of the mission planners who provided research and background...
Meanwhile, in London, unorthodox MI5 agent, John Preston (Michael Caine), finds himself between a rock and a hard place following the abdication and replacement of his former superior, Bernard Hemmings (Michael Gough), by the bureaucratic acting deputy, Harcourt-Smith (Julian Glover). A man devoted to his duty, his son and his country, Preston doggedly pursues a mole leaking classified documents from within the secret service and, as a result of his unorthodox methods, unwittingly finds himself in a position in which he uncovers the truth behind Petrofsky's terrifying mission....
Containing something to the order of only twenty gunshots, one car chase and no CGI at all, John Mackenzie's film of Frederick Forsyth's "The Fourth Protocol" is a cold war thriller of the type that they just don't make any more...and mores the pity.
Attempting to adapt Forsyth's brilliant, labyrinthine tale of plot and counter-plot for the screen was always going to be virtually impossible, but this film, while treating the viewer to a somewhat truncated version of the novel, remains true to it's feeling and vision. No doubt, this can be attributed to the intelligence of the screenplay (which was written by Forsyth himself and "Manchurian Candidate" screenplay alumnus, George Axelrod), John MacKenzie's muscular, spare direction and a stellar cast which boasts such luminaries as Sir Ian Richardson, Ray McAnally, Ned Beatty, Anton Rogers and Joanna Cassidy.
This is a film which is carried by it's actors and they do so superbly; the scene in which the late, great Sir Ian Richardson's serpentine peer of the realm confronts Anton Rogers' petulant civil servant is one of the greatest scenes of understated menace ever committed to celluloid in my humble opinion. Likewise, a young Brosnan gives a superb turn as the coldly calculating Petrofsky (one only wishes that he'd only been allowed to express this kind of ruthlessness during his tenure as Bond) and Caine subtly subverts and reinterprets his "Harry Palmer" persona during his performance as Brosnan's harried, human nemesis.
An espionage tale for those who prefer plot over pyrotechnics, "The Fourth Protocol" remains one of my all time favourite big-screen spy dramas. Watch it and, if you're anything like me, you'll find yourself whistling the menacing Leitmotifs from Lalo Schifrin's memorable score for days afterwards.
Terrific Movie -NOT THIS VERSION February 28, 2009
S.L.S (Ontario Canada)
Save yourself some grief and order this from Amazon UK.
I did and I'm glad I did.Their version has been digitally
remastered and therefore the pic quality is great.
If you don't have a region free dvd player(I didn't),go to
videohelp.com a get a hack for your dvd player.It will make
it region free.Hope this helps.
DO NOT RENT THIS MOVIE January 11, 2009
A. W. Dienst (Seattle, WA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I wish I'd seen Sparky's review for this (http://www.amazon.com/review/R33NJA31NBBJLE/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm), because he nails it. This is a poorly transferred version of the film, edited for TV with language edited and terrible commercial breaks inserted. Unfortunately, his review was buried at the bottom of the page and it was only when I started looking for negative comments that I found it. I'm posting this review to increase the likelihood that nobody else gets duped into the digital version of this movie.
The movie itself was decent, but it looks like someone taped this off the television and uploaded it to YouTube. Amazon should be embarrassed to be selling this. It isn't worth $0.99 let alone the $14.99/$2.99 they are charging.
Avoid at all costs.
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