The Fourth War (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- 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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Roy Scheider & Jürgen Prochnow | |
Performer: | Tim Reid, Harry Dean Stanton, Lara Harris & Dale Dye | |
Directed by | John Frankenheimer | |
Edited by | Robert F. Shugrue | |
Screenplay by | Stephen Peters & Kenneth Ross | |
Composition by | Bill Conti | |
Director of Photography: | Gerry Fisher |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Underrated war flick with a great lead performance by Roy Scheider.
eFilmCritic.com
...THE FOURTH WAR takes some unusual risks....[Scheider and Frankenheimer] work well together...
New York Times
...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
Rating: 3/4 --
The Fourth War is essentially a psychological study of a man coming apart at the hinges.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: B --
A modest but highly entertaining quirky Cold War thriller.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
Scheider is much better then the material.
Nolan's Pop Culture Review
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.