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The Good Shepherd [HD DVD] [2007] [US Import]
from Universal Studios
starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin, Tammy Blanchard
directed by Robert De Niro

Features:

• AC-3
• Colour
• Dolby
• Dubbed

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• The Good Shepherd
  Some reviewers have complained of lack of action and a dull main character; of a man with no obvious feelings, dedicated only to secrecy in the service of `The Company'. If you want gung-ho, bullet dodging heroes, then Tom Clancy and Harrison Ford are the guys for you. If you want to know where the men who are now running the USA (and hence the world) originated, and how they took a stranglehold on power, then watch this film. It is an intelligent account of the early days of the CIA: an extension of a rich... more info

• good
  There is nothing wrong with this film. It is a good, intellegent film with an interesting plot. There is nothing wrong with a long film either except when it tries to incorporate the level of detail that you read in a book. There is too much emphasis on very minor details which uses up unnecessary film time and therefore can easily lose the audiences interest. Worth a watch but it could definitely do with a small bit of editing.

• Moody and Suspenseful!
  I found this film to be totally absorbing, and yet, I can see how it would not appeal to those who are looking for fast-paced adventure. The tone of the film is intense, moody, and thought-provoking. The main character, played convincingly by an understated Matt Damon, is very loosely based upon James Jesus Angleton, a Yale poet, who studied counter-espionage with Kim Philby in London during World War II, and who presided over counter-espionage in the CIA during its infancy. One of the themes that the film... more info

• Hollow
  Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is a somber, quiet man. Every morning he leaves his middle class home in the suburbs and along with his neighbors boards a bus for downtown D.C. But unlike his neighbors, who presumably work as office functionaries, Wilson is a top, experienced, "higher-up" for the C.I.A. and though, on the surface dressed exactly like his neighbors in felt fedora and Sears trench coats, Wilson is headed for the monolith that is the C.I.A. headquarters.
  As written by Eric Roth and directed... more info

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