The Fourth War
The Fourth War

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Can a war veteran survive when there is no war? Hardly so. And it is all the more difficult when there are two war heroes! Posted on each side of the Czech-West German border, US colonel Jack Knowles and his Soviet counterpart Colonel Valachev, have been champing at the bit since Gorbachev launched his Glasnost policy. Fortunately for them, a serious border incident (the killing of a defector) will allow them to resume war. A private war first, but a war that will involve a s... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Fourth War:

Roy Scheider
Jürgen Prochnow
Tim Reid
Lara Harris
Harry Dean Stanton
Dale Dye

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Can a war veteran survive when there is no war? Hardly so. And it is all the more difficult when there are two war heroes! Posted on each side of the Czech-West German border, US colonel Jack Knowles and his Soviet counterpart Colonel Valachev, have been champing at the bit since Gorbachev launched his Glasnost policy. Fortunately for them, a serious border incident (the killing of a defector) will allow them to resume war. A private war first, but a war that will involve a serious troop confrontation. Bad for Gorbachev, good for the two sworn enemies who had been craving for action...

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 9/10 by Dennis SchwartzA modest but highly entertaining quirky Cold War thriller.
The Associated Press - 8/10 by Bob ThomasFrankenheimer handles it tersely and professionally, and coaxes an exceptionally good performance out of Harry Dean Stanton as an American general.
Chicago Sun-Times - 8/10 by Roger EbertAlthough the movie centers on well-made action scenes and contains a couple of tidy surprises, its strength comes from the portrait of this soldier on the edge.
Entertainment Weekly - 7/10 by Owen GleibermanThe Fourth War is an old-soldiers-never-die movie — an ironic elegy — and though much of the story is contrived and second-rate, Scheider gives a richly felt performance.
The New York Times - 7/10 by Janet MaslinMr. Frankenheimer relies on standard touches at times, but he also fills The Fourth War with interesting little asides.
Nolan's Pop Culture Review - 7/10 by Michael A. SmithScheider is much better then the material.
Los Angeles Times - 6/10 by Michael WilmingtonThe Fourth War may have been conceived as the thinking person's Rambo, but in the event it isn't a patch on First Blood; for a simple story, it's quite a mess, the very dubious voice-over hardly clarifying a clumsy sense of chronology.
Chicago Tribune - 5/10 by Dave KehrBoring and Silly, Ronin is a better example of Frankenheimer's direction.
Washington Post - 5/10 by Hal HinsonThe premise is so surrealistically improbable that if Frankenheimer's approach weren't so straight-faced it might be preposterously entertaining. But the director's shoulders are braced for Atlas duty and he fails to exploit the loony potential in Stephen Peters and Kenneth Ross's script.
User Review - 8/10 by Fredrik Galthough the story does stretch it's credibility, it's still a tense, well paced film with nice winter photography. roy schneider's crazy colonel is sometimes surprisingly touching. i feel frankenheimer is still not appreciated enough as a director. he might also be the greatest wide-angle lens user this side of welles.

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