The Fourth War
Added 2/8/2002
The best element of this movie is the vintage Porsche 356
which Scheider's colonel character drives. Stanton's general
is totally miscast, but his acting is superb. What really
irked me was the failure to set the scene to at least look
something like Germany. Other than some snow and evergreens,
it was obviously filmed in the states or maybe Canada. The roads
and building types are all wrong. Ignoring all the negatives,
this movie is still quite entertaining. Stanton's charactersaved it.
2 out of 2 people found this helpful.
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Revenge of the Frogman
Added 4/18/2001
Seeing this movie around 2 in the morning on Bravo, it caught my interest for a little while. But, the most intresting thing, besides seeing Roy Scheider make an enemy tower combust with the aid of keresone, was his amazing ability to look like a toad. The main reason was his mouth, I guess. How could anyone take this man seriously in combat??? I would probably bust out laughing when encountered with his amphibian-like physique. It was and ok movie, but like a lot of other ones I have seen.
2 out of 4 people found this helpful.
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Irritatingly contrived.
Added 4/5/2001
If you are a cold war film buff then you might like this just to be a completist but for general viewing it stinks! Forget it! It is just too contrived both in terms if plot and action. The fight scene, for example. No one would be able to stand all those hits and still be able to fight and what was all that when Schneider floats under the ice and pops up ready to fight again. Some of what you show has to be at least a little believable. This isn't! It has a cold war theme but it is, just as another reviewer says, just a Rambo spin off.
2 out of 3 people found this helpful.
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No wonder I never saw it on Tv
Added 11/24/2000
I purchased the 'Forth War' because I am a fan of Jurgen Prochnow and I am something of a Cold War scenario romantic. Jurgen's acting is less credible in 'The Fourth War' than in his other movies such as 'Dune' and 'Das Boot' and the same could be said for Scheider. This is not a movie about acting ability. Nor it the plot overly convincing. Actually it becomes rather comical and ridiculous. As I continued to watch, it progressively degraded into a 'Red Scorpion' type war flick. You know the type: lame attempts to turn normal helicopters into helicopter gunships by slinging on gigantic rocket pods (I'll give them credit for using a Russian Mi-4 Hound Helicopter at least!), hung-ho military lingo that doesn't quite cut it, lame jokes, that annoying dubbed on machine gun bullet sound, out of sync recoil from guns etc. One thing however, no one gets killed in this movie so it doesn't stoop to the level where incompetent Russian soldiers are gunned down with relative impunity. To sum this film up - It's a cheap copy of Rambo but doesn't quite deliver the same degree of action. Watch-able if you are a demented sicko like me who actually can enjoy such crap!
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A good cold war story- And it has Jurgen!
Added 7/26/2000
I have been a huge fan of Jurgen Prochnow and here is another great performance, and Roy Schnieder puts on a good show as well. Sometimes the movie can get a little bit silly, but everything makes up for it.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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The Fourth War
Added 2/8/2002
The best element of this movie is the vintage Porsche 356
which Scheider's colonel character drives. Stanton's general
is totally miscast, but his acting is superb. What really
irked me was the failure to set the scene to at least look
something like Germany. Other than some snow and evergreens,
it was obviously filmed in the states or maybe Canada. The roads
and building types are all wrong. Ignoring all the negatives,
this movie is still quite entertaining. Stanton's charactersaved it.
2 out of 2 people found this helpful.
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Revenge of the Frogman
Added 4/18/2001
Seeing this movie around 2 in the morning on Bravo, it caught my interest for a little while. But, the most intresting thing, besides seeing Roy Scheider make an enemy tower combust with the aid of keresone, was his amazing ability to look like a toad. The main reason was his mouth, I guess. How could anyone take this man seriously in combat??? I would probably bust out laughing when encountered with his amphibian-like physique. It was and ok movie, but like a lot of other ones I have seen.
2 out of 4 people found this helpful.
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Irritatingly contrived.
Added 4/5/2001
If you are a cold war film buff then you might like this just to be a completist but for general viewing it stinks! Forget it! It is just too contrived both in terms if plot and action. The fight scene, for example. No one would be able to stand all those hits and still be able to fight and what was all that when Schneider floats under the ice and pops up ready to fight again. Some of what you show has to be at least a little believable. This isn't! It has a cold war theme but it is, just as another reviewer says, just a Rambo spin off.
2 out of 3 people found this helpful.
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