The Fourth Angel
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The Fourth Angel is a 2001
Plot
Jack Elgin (
, hoping to simultaneously seize a plum reporting assignment, and spend quality time with his family. Maria is not as impressed as the kids are.On the way to India, their plane, a
The demand is met, and Loyvek and Maldic start releasing the women and children, with the men to go last, but as soon as a front passenger door is opened, a local police team gunning for the terrorists opens fire. The flight attendants frantically open the rest of the airplane's doors and start getting passengers out, but the terrorists start killing passengers, leading to an explosion.
Maria, Joanne, and Julia get out of the airplane, and then Jack, holding Andrew, gets out, only to watch Maria, Joanne, and Julia get shot by the terrorists. Maria and Joanne are dead, and Julia is still alive, but Julia burns to death while crying for help. In all, a total of 15 passengers die, and Loyvek and Maldic, the surviving terrorists, escape, knowing that they now have the $50,000,000. Jack feels that the hijacking would never have ended that way if the police team had waited until after the passengers were released from the airplane before opening fire.
Back in London, a devastated Jack is told that the terrorists were captured, but they were released and deported secretly, with no charges & no arrest. Jack is enraged that Loyvek and Maldic got off scot free. While helping Andrew cope, Jack tries all the legal ways to ensure justice for his family, but to no avail.
Jack pays a visit to Henry Davidson (
With the help of his friend, ex-intelligence operative Kate Stockton (Charlotte Rampling), Jack tracks down those who work with Loyvek and Maldic, and turns their own weapons against them. Trailing Jack is FBI agent Jules Bernard (Forest Whitaker), who's cooperating with Scotland Yard on anti-terrorist activities, and who suspects that Jack is the man who has been killing anyone involved in the hijacking.
It turns out Jules is on Jack's side, and he's willing to help Jack. After Jack kills Maldic, it turns out that Davidson was behind everything. Davidson had the airplane hijacked so he could get $50,000,000. With Jules's help, Jack sets out to make Loyvek and Davidson pay for the deaths of his family and the other people who died in Cyprus.
Cast
- Jeremy Irons as Jack Elgin
- Forest Whitaker as FBI Agent Jules Bernard
- Jason Priestley as CIA Agent Henry Davidson
- Briony Glassco as Maria Elgin
- Charlotte Rampling as Kate Stockton
- Lois Maxwell as Olivia
- Timothy West as Jones
- Joel Pitts as Andrew Elgin
- Anna Maguire as Joanne Elgin
- Holly Boyd as Julia Elgin
- Kal Weber as Kulindos
- Ian McNeice as MI5 Agent Lewison
- Serge Soric as Ivanic Loyvek
- Ivan Marevich as Karadan Maldic
Release
Produced in 2001, The Fourth Angel opened in a number of European countries before the events of
References
- ^ a b Mark Deming (2014). "The Fourth Angel". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 25 April 2014.
External links
- The Fourth Angel at IMDb
- The Fourth Angel at Rotten Tomatoes