“The Good Shepherd” is an amazingly constipated movie. Laborious and slow, filled with bad acting and bad crutches. I was actually astonished how much I ended up disliking it.
Set in 1940′s-50′s-60′s Washington espionage world, it just sucked. All the europeans were foppish homosexuals or traitors. Matt Damon is supposed to be grim, paranoid, and dedicated, but he simply acts with such a rigor [as in mortis, not discipline] that he reminded me more of Keanu Reeves, the world’s worst actor. Angeline Jolie, who absolutely screams SEX, is a horrible actress. That would still be ok in this movie, if she had a lot of sex scenes or long shower sequences, but no, this movie is Eisenhower America, so feast your eyes on her Eisenower hairstyles, Eisenhower dresses, and Eisenhower attitudes towards anal sex, heroin, and bisexuality. When Alec Baldwin did one of the better acting jobs in the movie, you know it’s trouble.
This made me nervous to watch Breach. Thankfully before I turned that on, I decided to clean my room, so I went looking for espionage-oriented podcasts to listen to while I tidied. [basically making piles of shit to take back downstairs and stick in large plastic crates]. I found this very interesting, very scathing review of Breach by the Counter-Intelligence Centre. It is well worth listening to, as the guy being interviewed, a former FBI Counterintelligence expert has real bona fides.
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