Product Details

• Actors: Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris, Harry Dean Stanton
• Directors: John Frankenheimer
• Writers: Kenneth Ross, Stephen Peters
• Producers: Robert L. Rosen, Sam Perlmutter, William Stuart, Wolf Schmidt
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hbo Home Video
• VHS Release Date: June 13, 1995
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301930908
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #180,049 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Fourth War, February 7, 2002

By 

Joseph Celeste (FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fourth War [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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 character

saved it.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No wonder I never saw it on Tv, November 23, 2000

By 

Tristan Gross (Shalvey, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fourth War [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good cold war story- And it has Jurgen!, July 26, 2000

By 

Christopher Graff - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fourth War [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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.