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      • Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 57 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Variety called it "a well-made Cold War thriller" and praised the casting, as well as Frankenheimer's direction for having "an eye for comic relief as well as tension maintenance".
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  1. There are moments when the possibility of accidental war seems very real. "The Fourth War" is essentially a psychological study of a man coming apart at the hinges. Knowles, played by Scheider, is an embittered, alcoholic loser who was a hero once, a long time ago and far away.

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  3. When Knowles witnesses Czech border guards shoot down a dissident trying to flee to the West and encounters his Soviet counterpart, Colonel N.A. Valachev (a war hero from Afghanistan) the two men...

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    • John Frankenheimer
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    • Roy Scheider
  4. The Fourth War is a 1990 American cold war drama film directed by John Frankenheimer. It is set in West Germany of the late 1980s, and was filmed in Alberta, Canada. It stars Roy Scheider and Jürgen Prochnow as two military men whose personal dispute threatens to escalate into a larger conflict.

  5. The Fourth War is essentially a psychological study of a man coming apart at the hinges. Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000 Entertainment Weekly

  6. Mar 23, 1990 · The Fourth War: Directed by John Frankenheimer. With Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris. Cold War drama about two gung-ho border commanders (Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow) who carry out their own private war against each other on the German - Czechoslovakia border.

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    • Drama, Thriller
    • John Frankenheimer
    • 1990-03-23
  7. Produced around the same time as Frankenheimer's Dead Bang, The Fourth War was intended by Frankenheimer and star Roy Scheider as a satirical anti-war film which boils the concept of war down to a festering and escalating feud between two soldiers on opposite sides.

  8. The Fourth War Review. Two trigger happy border commanders, with no war left to fight in, determine to fight against each other on the German-Czech border. by Angie Errigo |. Published on 01...

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