Producer-director Robert De Niro’s “The Good Shepherd” is a fictional story telling of the beginning of the spy business at the Central Intelligence Agency. The consistency and pacing of the film is terrible, thanks to director De Niro and screenwriter Eric Roth. They alternate from brilliant movie scenes to mundane material; from personal stories to national security issues; from fast-paced story telling to yawning gaps in the picture. Trying to fill in the nearly three hours was definitely a problem here.
The performances by the big names and some not so big names were not exactly inspirational nor particularly entertaining. Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, Joe Pesci, William Hurt, John Turturro, Billy Crudup, Timothy Hutton, Keir Dullea, Lee Pace, Eddie Redmayne, Martina Gedeck, John Sessions, Oleg Stefan, Liya Kebede, Mark Ivanir, Gabriel Macht, and Tommy Nelson were all working at different levels.
The film was nominated for one Academy Award in the Best Art Direction category. Robert De Niro’s disastrous monstrosity “The Good Shepherd” was a bomb at the box office for TriBeCa Productions, Morgan Creek Productions, American Zoetrope, and Universal Pictures.
The Good Shepherd (2006)
cinema
My Review
Producer-director Robert De Niro’s “The Good Shepherd” is a fictional story telling of the beginning of the spy business at the Central Intelligence Agency. The consistency and pacing of the film is terrible, thanks to director De Niro and screenwriter Eric Roth. They alternate from brilliant movie scenes to mundane material; from personal stories to national security issues; from fast-paced story telling to yawning gaps in the picture. Trying to fill in the nearly three hours was definitely a problem here.
The performances by the big names and some not so big names were not exactly inspirational nor particularly entertaining. Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, Joe Pesci, William Hurt, John Turturro, Billy Crudup, Timothy Hutton, Keir Dullea, Lee Pace, Eddie Redmayne, Martina Gedeck, John Sessions, Oleg Stefan, Liya Kebede, Mark Ivanir, Gabriel Macht, and Tommy Nelson were all working at different levels.
The film was nominated for one Academy Award in the Best Art Direction category. Robert De Niro’s disastrous monstrosity “The Good Shepherd” was a bomb at the box office for TriBeCa Productions, Morgan Creek Productions, American Zoetrope, and Universal Pictures.