Cetvrti covek

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.