The Fourth Protocol (film) Pierce Brosnan is chillingly effective as an assassin with the body temperature of a snake. The yarn is otherwise little more than "" tightly re-wound for the age of glasnost." Scott praised Michael Caine's excellent performance, but complained that the "role permits him to display only one of the three dimensions he was able to provide in his portrayal of the father in "The Whistleblower"." The Fourth Protocol (film) The Fourth Protocol is a 1987 British Cold War spy film featuring Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan, based on the novel "The Fourth Protocol" by Frederick Forsyth. In 1968, an East-West
The Fourth Protocol who have smuggled them into the country either hidden, or disguised as seemingly harmless artifacts. One of the couriers, masquerading as a sailor, is assaulted by 'Neds' in Glasgow and hospitalised, where he commits suicide rather than submit to interrogation. Preston investigates and finds three out-of-place looking metal discs in a tobacco tin in his gunny sack. He shows the discs to a metallurgist who identifies the outer two as aluminium but the third as polonium, a key element in the initiator of an atomic bomb. Preston reports his findings to his antagonistic MI5 superior, who ignores them, has Preston