The Fourth Protocol

Pretty good Cold War thriller. I love the 80s cars and, just, the 80s aesthetic. The scenes in Russia of Russian people speaking to each other in English struck me as odd, though perhaps Russian speakers would have been hard to cast for political reasons, maybe? It is weird about gay people, in a way that I couldn't clearly understand as a particular stance but just also struck me as odd.

Decent enough with a good principal cast. Michael Caine is pretty awesome in this but I can't shake the feeling that the Russians would run out of spies with the amount of times they have to kill each other in this movie.

Okay back in the day but dated nowadays. Nice to see Pierce Brosnan as a villain though

Not bad.

Painfully bland.

While it is not a cinematic masterpiece or anything, The Fourth protocol certainly is thrilling and entertaining. The performances are nothing to write home about, but the lead actors do their respective routines quite nicely and Brosnan in particular makes a convincing "bad guy" (although he's really just portraying someone doing his job, I guess.) Notable for its remarkably accurate depiction of the workings of an atomic bomb (so I hear).