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Actors: Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Fourth Protocol
British Secret Agent John Preston discovers that a Ministry of Defence worker is selling secrets to Russian agent. After catching the worker, Preston is sent to work in another section. After a accident at a docks where a man was runover, Preston uncovers a plot by the KGB to sneak a nuclear weapon into Great Britian and dentonate it on a U.S. airbase. Preston races against tim to stop the agent, Valeri Petrofsky, who is posing as James Edward Ross. Preston finds Petrofsky and stops him, just to have him killed by his bosses men. Preston finds out it was a set-up, and he was the pawn in the plan.
--Matthew W. Kresal, Resident Scholar



Analysis of The Fourth Protocol
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%



Time/Era of Movie: - 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets: - Preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster
The terrorist enemy is... - spies

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - spy
Age: - 40's-50's
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - short/standard curly (man)
Body type - average (man)
Events of movie makes character more... - aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality - British
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - spy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 40%
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair type - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - average (man)
unclothed? - chest
Ethnicity/Nationality - Russian
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - Russia - England/UK
Misc setting - fort/military installation - sewers/subways - building

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel... - challenged
How many deaths in film? - 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing - sex under blankets
Kind of violence: - mission to destroy something - mission to protect something - hand to hand - guns
Unusual forms of death - perforation--bullets
Non-American film? Yes
What language? - English
Any profanity? - Some foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a - book
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