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Best movie of this year hands down!

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It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Everything is good in this movie expect the fact that the pace is damn slow...many things happen but still feels boring Actually if u want to c the plot then go for it but if u r habituated of sleeping Iduring movies ..i assure u,u will sleep with in 30 mins acting is better as its matt damon.but not a film what u wish it should be

'The Good Shepherd' is at its best when it sticks to nuts-and-bolts cinematic fundamentals: good acting, good shots, engrossing characters, engaging story lines. It is at its worst when it descends into "evolutive" political moralizing: the Cold War was a crack, the Soviets were never a menace, all the U.S. wanted was to keep up its military-industrial complex, the WASP was desperate to keep the Irish Catholic and the Jew out of the rungs of power, etc. etc..All the same, the film manages to pay tribute both to American history and sociology as well as to the greatness of American cinema. Taking care to show a good cross-section of the post-war U.S. society, the film manages a good send-up of the worst of Old Yankee Puritan society in chronicling the devastating effects of hard-line, Manichean detachment on life. Matt Damon's character is appropriately cold and dehumanized, unable to respond to his dutiful and perceptive ("Bonesmen first; God second") wife, played brilliantly by Angelina Jolie. The melodramatic music recounts to great effect the banal but lovable blockbusters of the 1990s, before giving way to the chilling silence of the rude awakening along the path to sophistication.Overall a carefully if a bit too cynically crafted work. It does make for an excellent diversion on an evening when one is feeling nostalgic for times past long before one was in fact born. I certainly enjoyed it on a solitary holiday in NYC on 31 December 2006.

This was still a tedious, slow-burn of a movie and I will admit to not always having a clear idea as to what was going on and having to pay close attention to the dialogue, as a lot of it is spoken in riddles. A cast of heavy weights is what really makes this watchable.The story starts in 1961 at the CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs and then follows Edward Wilson's career in flashbacks. Matt Damon takes the lead here, his character is serious, self contained and hard to get a read on. Damon seems to play a lot of these 'silent' characters.It continues to flip back and forth between the 40's and 60's; Damon is a student at Yale, his recruitment through the Skull & Bones fraternity, a shotgun marriage to Angelina Jolie (in a small role), his early spy years in London during WW2 and the blitz (which was re-created well) a couple of affairs, the cold war and disillusionment and distrust with the agency.Along the way he rubs shoulders with Alec Baldwin, Billy Crudup, Joe Pesci, John Turturro, Timothy Hutton, Patrick Wilson, Robert DeNiro, William Hurt and Eddie Redmayne plays his son.I wouldn't say this was a great movie, it tries hard, has a stellar cast, nice cinematography but takes itself too seriously and ultimately is slow, dry and confusing in sections. There is also zero action (if that's important to you). As for Matt Damon's character, as the Russian says "the silence is deafening". 1/25/15

I was a very late getting around to watch to this. I had heard all the rave reviews and thought it was going to be an epic. I decided to see it on VOD over the holiday. Boy, I wish I hadn't. This was a huge disappointment. It was an over-long boring watch. Yes it was stylish, yes it had a great impressive cast, yes, it had great acting, yes it was beautifully filmed and yes it had a huge budget, but it was over-inflated and self indulgent. The characters were one-dimensional and lifeless. The plot was dense and over-complicated. It was difficult to watch, like wading through treacle. Never once did it draw me in. I was not gripped by any part of the plot and I hardly managed to get through it. Matt Damon is a great actor, but his character remains blank and dull and too young to be convincing in this. I just was left feeling blank myself.