Tapsearch Com EditorVery brief review of The Good Shepherd
January 14th 2007 19:43
Two words: too much.
The thing is two hours and forty minutes long, and that still isn't enough time to develop all the separate plots and familiarize the audience with a zillion characters. If you've already seen it, this Wikipedia summary might let you in on what the hell happened.
It's loosely anti-CIA, though not quite the screed I'd expect from an Alec Baldwin project.
Finally, the timeline bounces around constantly. Wikipedia unfortunately/fortunately doesn't do this justice, rearranging the events so they actually make sense. If I can find a different summary that will let me map out the timeline, I'll post it.
UPDATE: I just noticed this -- even the lengthy Wikipedia summary leaves out an entire subplot, that of a CIA-arranged mission to drop hostile bugs on a Latin American coffee field. I presume this was to stop the spread of communism, but I'm not real clear on why a CIA officer's finger got sent back in a jar.
The thing is two hours and forty minutes long, and that still isn't enough time to develop all the separate plots and familiarize the audience with a zillion characters. If you've already seen it, this Wikipedia summary might let you in on what the hell happened.
It's loosely anti-CIA, though not quite the screed I'd expect from an Alec Baldwin project.
Finally, the timeline bounces around constantly. Wikipedia unfortunately/fortunately doesn't do this justice, rearranging the events so they actually make sense. If I can find a different summary that will let me map out the timeline, I'll post it.
UPDATE: I just noticed this -- even the lengthy Wikipedia summary leaves out an entire subplot, that of a CIA-arranged mission to drop hostile bugs on a Latin American coffee field. I presume this was to stop the spread of communism, but I'm not real clear on why a CIA officer's finger got sent back in a jar.
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