Rating: R
Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 08/19/2003
SubTitles: Espanol/English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2/DD5.1
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Live/Artisan
An ordinary man remakes himself into a warrior after the death of his family in this
thriller.
Jack Elgin (
Jeremy Irons) is a magazine editor living in London with his wife and three children.
Elgin joins his spouse and his children as they set off for a trip to India, and when the plane lands due to mechanical failures, the flight is hijacked by terrorists from the "August 15th Movement," who insist on 50 million dollars in ransom from the United States government. The U.S. administration delivers on the request, but as the terrorists begin to evacuate hostages from the plane, circumstances go awry and
Elgin's wife and child die in the subsequent fire. The hijackers are soon arrested but released from custody, and when
Elgin protests this turn of events to a representative of the U.S. State Department (
Jason Priestley), he is told there's little than can be done -- unless he's willing to take the law into his own hands. With the help of his friend
Kate (
Charlotte Rampling), who is well-schooled in the finer points of international intelligence,
Elgin becomes a one-man anti-terrorist squadron, tracking down extremist factions and turning their own weapons against them.
Elgin's work is so impressive it attracts the attention of
Jules Bernard (
Forest Whitaker), an FBI agent who has his own agenda regarding shutting down terrorists.
The Fourth Angel was co-produced by American independent studio
Artisan Entertainment, but its U.S. theatrical release was canceled in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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