Synopsis
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent it's detonation.
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Cast
- Michael CaineJohn Preston
- Pierce BrosnanValeri Petrofsky / James Edward Ross
- Ned BeattyBorisov
- Joanna CassidyIrina Vassilievna
- Julian GloverBrian Harcourt-Smith
- Michael GoughSir Bernard Hemmings
- Ray McAnallyGeneral Karpov
- Ian RichardsonSir Nigel Irvine
- Anton RodgersGeorge Berenson
- Caroline BlakistonAngela Berenson
Recommendations
- 90
Washington Post
An engrossing and thoroughly enjoyable adaptation of the bestselling spy thriller by Frederick Forsyth. - 90
Washington Post
An absorbing, intelligent and suspense-filled film... It's streamlined and rich at the same time -- like the best of the James Bond films, but serious. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
The Fourth Protocol is first-rate because it not only is a thriller, but it also pays attention to its characters and shows how their actions grow out of their personalities. Like Michael Caine's other recent British spy film, "The Whistle Blower," it is effective not simply because it's a thriller but also because for long stretches it simply is a very absorbing drama. - 75
Chicago Tribune
The Fourth Protocol is full of seemingly inside information about the techniques of spies. And although the film rarely develops as much sustained tension as the adaptation of Forsyth's "The Day of the Jackal," The Fourth Protocol does have Caine as an anchor of credibility as well as solid performances as Russian agents by Joanna Cassidy and Brosnan, who looks here like he would have made a fine James Bond. [28 Aug 1987, p.A] - 70
Variety
The Fourth Protocol is a decidedly contempo thriller, a tale of vying masterspies and a chase to head off a nuclear disaster. Its edge is a fine aura of realism. - 60
The New York Times
A coolly efficient thriller with an octopus of a plot. - 50
Time Out
What is missing is any real tension or psychological detail that might lend plausibility to all the hocus-pocus about East-West political and military intrigue. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
A competent, if unremarkable, espionage thriller that is enjoyable while it lasts and forgotten moments after the credits roll.
