A tense and layered spy drama. The head of the KGB has a dastardly plan to split NATO apart. They send Petrofsky (
Pierce Brosnan) to the UK with a very important mission: to build and detonate a nuclear bomb at a US airbase! The mission is above top secret with a string of permanently silenced agents left behind as Petrofsky gets ready. MI6 are already on the trail though with Preston (
Michael Caine) investigating the smuggling in of nuclear material...
Caine plays a great role here as the agent hated by his superior and under an official cloud, but will save the world anyway. He does this with plenty of surveillance, wading through records and not a small amount of violence.
Brosnan also plays a good role as the cold and smooth agent whose only real weakness is that he is rather horny. Ned Beatty and Ian Richardson also star as senior and double-dealing officials on either side.
