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8/10
a really good tale with a shocking truth
quaseprovisorio23 April 2014
First things first: the ending is one of those we say "oh f*ck" kinda shocked. it's great.

The IMDb description kinda sums it up. It's a crime story, around the main character, trying to discover who he is, trying to understand what happened to the family he doesn't remember. It's well paced, even though is nothing fully original, these gimmicks were already made. But it is quite intense and powerful, and the main character is very well built.

It's a story every thriller fan around the world will enjoy for sure, just don't expect to finish with an awesome mood. This pain feels real.

Go and see it it's way better than most Hollywood thrillers you saw until now. for sure.
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6/10
Good thriller with a powerful last act
yeah_sure2 June 2014
As in various thrillers (like Bourne Identity), the plot is centered around the amnesia of the protagonist: he tries to find out who he was, who killed his wife and son, who are the people that come up to him after he wakes from his coma, what are their real motivations, and what dark secret is behind it all.

I had only three gripes: 1) Lazar's flashbacks allow us to suspect the identity of the killer too early on; 2) in the action sequences his antagonists seem rather incompetent; 3) Kojo puts on a solid performance, but sometimes Lazar just stares at people with a deadpan expression. Very Serbian no doubt, but takes some getting used to.

The movie kept my interest throughout, and the dark secret revealed at the end is indeed dark. The conclusion is powerful, and reaches beyond a personal tragedy.

Overall a good action thriller, darker than Bourne's Identity, and superior to most Hollywood fare.
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6/10
So so
stjopex11 June 2020
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Not bad but some of the shots are very unconvincing with lousy editing. The story itself is solid and the acting is decent. I didn't like Kojo pretending to be Rambo with the looks and coolness supported with the appropriate music. The scenes in the computer room and in the politician's house are ridiculous, especially with the kid and the water gun.
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10/10
Serbian thriller that deserves your attention!
jececence2 November 2007
Why are you so interested to know the truth? Let's just say that I'm fed up with all this. Let's just say it's all a lie. And what if it isn't?

Who is the major? What are the colonel true intentions? Is inspector friend or foe? And most important - who is the fourth man? If this introduction to the movie "Četvrti čovek" ("The Fourth Man") doesn't intrigue you, you will definitely be intrigued upon the entry to the cinemas and even more upon the exit. The answer to these questions will catch you unprepared, but maybe you knew the truth the whole time? "Četvrti čovek" is not only a very successfully realized genre movie, in the rank of big Hollywood thrillers, but also has a very strong domestic perspective that reaches back decades ago. That doesn't mean it will not be interesting for international audience. On the contrary, that gives an add value to the movie.

Thumbs up for the whole cast and crew, especially director Dejan Zečević. Great cinematography thanks to Goran Volarević. Nikola Kojo made one of his best roles in this movie. Bogdan Diklić and Dragan Petrović Pele are remarkable. Great female support by Semka Sokolović-Bertok and Dijana Marojević.
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5/10
The Bourne Identity meets Oldboy type of ripoff gone bad
DarkoPaligoric7 June 2014
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This is just a disjointed mess of a movie, it's this bad type of story telling that is like 'connecting the dots'... Like they wrote on paper list of plot points they would like to have in the movie and then wrote some story to join it together. At first it starts as Bourne Identity/Leon ripoff, then it goes into classic revenge tale of a cop who's child was a drug victim, so he joins main protagonist to hunt criminal mastermind using unusual methods... And then it goes for the Memento/Oldboy kind of third act with a huge twist that will leave you in awe (sarcasm sign)... This movie steals from all over the place... Not to say that you can't make a good movie sticking to genre conventions, Tarantino made a career for himself by referencing and ripping off other people... But usually it's expected that you throw some of your own touches into the mix, and it also doesn't hurt to be little self aware. This movie takes it self way too seriously! So seriously that by the third act it's laughably bad.

But maybe it's not fair to label it as a bad movie just because it steals every psychological thriller ever made, so let's deconstruct it's level of badness. Execution is really bad... And don't say how i'm nitpicking, because if you have the money to get all of those locations equipment etc. It wouldn't hurt if you knew how to choreographed and shoot action. Other than that one shitty scene where Nikola Kojo breaks this one guys nose (they would cut after every punch to a same shot, only different take... why, only god knows), there isn't that may opportunities to show how bad at it they actually are at it but the last big showdown shitty as hell in those terms. From continuity errors to errors of logical kind... Nikola Kojo is trying to give it his best, and he is... He's trying to give some sort of depth to a shallow character but he is just plain overacting. And really, are you gonna cast Dragan Petrovic in that role, by the minute you see him on the screen you know that something's not right with him... it's his typical role... Jut like Nikola Kojo is here in his almost typical role... Maja Karan plays only one role ever, she's always the same and it's no exception here. Almost everyone is playing their typical character here, everything about this movie says that it's a movie made by committee. it's really a shame that in Serbia only small group of people get to decide on that projects should money be spent and that they always give it to the untalented people with no vision or artistic expression. Cinemas today are filled with movies that feel like they have been made by a machine that's just trimming out same product one after another... How good is that product is equivalent to the taste of a cake you by in a supermarket...Tasteless... And this one is like it too, only this one feels like it's been made by a in development version of that machine... Go watch any of the movies I mentioned above, I wouldn't say that those movies are masterpieces but at least they're not pretending they're something they're not. This movie begs you to associate it with modern Hollywood type of action thrillers, and I'm not buying it.
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1/10
Cheap trash
richkiel4 August 2021
A boring 'thriller' in the neo-noir style that uses every cliche in the book and ends with an anticlimax. Also, it employs some tedious anti-Serbian tropes about the civil war in Bosnia. A sedated, unlikable protagonist and a dull antagonist. The ending twist is telegraphed from the very beginning.
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3/10
Dull
harryplinkett142 July 2020
It's an unimaginative film that comes across as a student film that is more interested in mastering various techniques than telling a compelling story. Nikola Kojo, who plays the lead role, appears to be sedated throughout the film. The dialogue is badly written, and it appears that the filmmakers saw it as something irritating that they just wanted to get over with, rather than invest a lot of time into. The 'twist' at the end is not original, and it offers no emotional payoff. What saves this poor attempt at a thriller is Marija Karan, not because of her acting skills, but because she looks good in the sex scene. That's the only positive about this cinematic effort, as far as I am concerned. The film uses that obnoxious green filter that so many films have used in the past two decades, and stylistically it seems to try and look like something out of Hollywood. I assume the idea was to try and promote the film abroad. The choice of filming locations suggests that, too. This is hardly a film that feels as if it was taking place in Belgrade. There is even a scene with the subway, and Belgrade's subway is really just a tiny stretch that it's highly unlikely that the protagonist would use it. It's there because the filmmakers thought it looked cool. Unfortunately, the one thing they didn't think of investing time into was the actual screenplay. The end result is a dull film that offers little in terms of suspense or action.
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