The Fourth War (Blu-ray) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 8, 2015
  • Originally Released: 1990
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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User Ratings: 131
Rating: 3/5 -- Underrated war flick with a great lead performance by Roy Scheider.
eFilmCritic.com
Jul 26, 2002
...THE FOURTH WAR takes some unusual risks....[Scheider and Frankenheimer] work well together...
New York Times
Mar 24, 1990
...It has the exhilarating iciness of a clear, windy day, with sunlight like a bright knife and breath curling out in frosty plumes....Scheider gives an intense performance...
Los Angeles Times
Mar 23, 1990
Rating: 3/4 -- The Fourth War is essentially a psychological study of a man coming apart at the hinges. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: B -- A modest but highly entertaining quirky Cold War thriller. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dec 27, 2014
Rating: 3/5 -- Scheider is much better then the material.
Nolan's Pop Culture Review
Jan 9, 2005

Product Description:

John Frankenheimer returns to the subject of the cold war, the source of some his best work, nearly three decades later. But in 1988, the game is nearly over--unless Col. Jack Knowles (Roy Scheider) ignites WWIII. Despite a closetful of decorations, the quick-tempered Knowles has always been regarded by his colleagues as a loose cannon, and he has been serving only in the most harmless posts since Vietnam. But old friend General Hackworth (Harry Dean Stanton) feels he's mellowed enough to take command of a sensitive post on the Czech/West German border. Almost immediately after arriving, he witnesses the murder of a Czech escapee within feet of the border by his opposite number, Russian colonel Valachev (Jürgen Prochnow). Knowles retaliates by blowing up Valachev's Jeep, setting the stage for a series of increasingly violent confrontations between the two men, who each has the potential to trigger nuclear war. In a film that should have been titled "Man on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown," the cold war is no more than a backdrop for a profile of a bitter, alcoholic soldier incapable of adjusting to a new type of conflict. Scheider and Stanton give superb performances in this thriller.

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