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R2 version avavilable!

posted 20 years ago by general-bogin
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The transfer on this DVD is very nice. I didn't notice any problems. Decent 2.0 sound. It also had a 30 minute featurette with multiple short interviews with the film's principal players on both sides of the camera. I can now trash my old FS VHS tape. Heartily recommended for Michael Caine fans and Pierce Brosnan fans. This film & its premise about sneaking a small Atomic Bomb into a country predates Tom Clancy's "The Sum of All Fears" on film by 15 years. The frightening thing is that this could happen. Another recommended DVD in the same Atomic Bomb vein as "The Fourth Protocol" & "The Sum of All Fears" is "The Peacemaker" with George Clooney. "The Peacemaker" has really nice action scenes & a lot of tension as the man with the Bomb is stalked through the east side of NYC with the Bomb ticking away toward 00:00.

PS - Another film that tries this premise is "The Manhattan Project". It is a silly take on a serious & frightening subject.

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[–] zestywhite 18 years ago

I remember the 'set off an atomic bomb and make it look like an accident so that nuclear disarmament will occur, leaving the West defenceless' ploy was used in Octopussy and I thought it was a good plot. However, the book of the Fourth Protocol was a brilliant (if a little too unsettlingly realistic) delivery of this potential threat.
I read section 2 in it's entirety one night and had to fight the tiredness the next day at work :-s

[–] different-drummer 17 years ago

This film & its premise about sneaking a small Atomic Bomb into a country predates Tom Clancy's "The Sum of All Fears" on film by 15 years.

Well, that idea goes back at least to Ian Fleming's novel "Thunderball" (1961).