This is the kind of film I watch if it comes free with a newspaper I buy anyway and if the choice on television is either Mr. Bean or Carry On Brain-dead. Those factors combined recently so I sat through it and managed not to fall asleep. Caine phones in a Harry Palmer-lite performance as the (surprise, surprise) insubordinate spy-catcher who lucks in to a fiendish Russian plot to detonate a nuclear device on a US Air Base in England thus making America the heavy who has flouted the 'no-WMD in our respective countries' rule. Essentially it's a thriller without any thrills, a jaded cat making half-hearted attempts to catch a badly run-down clockwork mouse. The acting is okay and about a third of the usual suspects are wheeled out to do a day's shoot and get the free lunch. No worse than most of the genre but no better than any.
Review of The Fourth Protocol
