The 4th Man (1983)
A man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom
Cast and Information
Directed By: Paul Verhoeven
Written By: Gerard Soeteman, Gerard Reve
Starring: Jeroen Krabbé, Thom Hoffman, Reinout Bussemaker, Renée Soutendijk, Geert de Jong, Hans Veerman, Dolf de Vries, Ursul de Geer, Hero Muller, Erik J. Meijer, Filip Bolluyt, Caroline de Beus
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
AKAs: The Fourth Man, De Vierde man
Country: Netherlands
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KAH | 3 74th |
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Colorful thriller that throws the viewer off with symbolic imagery and surreal fantasy sequences. Might be considered pretentious by some, but its obviously deliberately overdone in a sort of trashy arthouse style, while retaining beautiful visuals and telling a pretty straightforward story. Seeing this movie you realize Verhoeven had to be picked up by Hollywood sooner or later.
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Dean Franz | 100 98th |
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Like Starship Troopers, this works both as a piss-take of the genre it inhabits and as a successful genre movie in itself. Crass symbolism, decadence and nudity abound, all done in a tongue-in-cheek, "anything goes" additude that should be the rule and not the exception in arthouse features. A movie that spits in the eyes of all wankers everywhere.
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FrederikA | 75 77th |
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Now... I may be out on the deep end here... But I think I might have spottet a tiny bit of hidden symbolism in this film... Verhoeven does De Palma better than De Palma himself...
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Kojiless | 48 52nd |
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The 4th man is...YOU! And you're a besotted, bisexual Catholic who hooks up with a well-tuned German sex-bot in order to get close to the man you love, who doesn't love you so you try to get busy in a ancient crypt, which obviously doesn't work because WHO THE FUCK GETS BUSY IN A CRYPT!? Talk about a mood killer (unless you are a vampire or a Goth teen, which, to my knowledge, neither of the characters were...though this is Paul Verhoeven we're talking about, so they may have been).
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KasperL | 70 65th |
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It starts off really well but kind of fizzles. Also, it threw me off that I had a hunch that it would have the same twist as 'The Crying Game'.
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dunbar | 75 61st |
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There are more heavy-handed religious symbols than boobs or penises in this movie. But the fact that there's both is not surprising for a Dutch film, and Verhoeven seems to have little fear of going all out. He always hammers home messages in a curiously entertaining and very watchable way. (Browsing other reviews I would warn against anything that's been edited, particularly at the hands of some conservative American editor)
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Bagger | 75 63rd |
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*singing* there's a black-winged gull wit a broken back/ Theres a butterfly trapped in a spider's web - there's a little LSD in my noir today - but it's the same old noir as yesterday. - I've seen it before in black and white and grain. About a sort-of-gay man who is a bit insane. He takes a half-brained turn down Vagina Lane - And it all ends up in tragicomic pain.
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| Average Percentile 62.64% from 351 Ratings |  |