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The Good Shepherd (Widescreen Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
EAN: 0025192867125
Format: AC-3, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Extra tracks, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed),
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: 61028671
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 03, 2007
Running Time: 168 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 2006
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Editorial Review:
A complicated movie about the Central Intelligence Agency and its agents, The Good Shepherd isn't your typical spy movie. Though it stars Matt Damon (The Bourne Identity films) and Angelina Jolie (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Lara Croft franchise)--actors with considerable experience in the action-espionage genre--The Good Shepherd requires that they play more subdued and (much less interesting) characters here. The movie focuses on the career or Edward Wilson (Damon), a privileged Yale graduate who goes on to help found the CIA. He is a quiet, serious, and guarded man, even in the most intimate moments with his civilian wife (Jolie, in a role that wastes her talent). Set against a backdrop of real-life events such as the Bay of Pigs, The Good Shepherd is meticulous in creating a realistic timeframe. The film gets a jolt of excitement when Robert DeNiro (in his first directing role since 1993's A Bronx Tale) peppers the screen with appearances by Joe Pesci, Alec Baldwin, and William Hurt. But those moments are too infrequent. At 157 minutes long, the film is crammed with many factual details, but the characters are shortchanged when it comes to development. Viewers have to wonder why anyone, much less someone like Wilson who has everything going for him, would devote his life to a thankless job that brings so little happiness to himself and his family. The Good Shepherd is an ambitious but flawed film. The actors do a formidable job with a well-intentioned but meandering script. However, we meet so many characters and learn so little about each that it's difficult to drum up much empathy for any of them. --Jae-Ha Kim
Matt Damon Angelina Jolie and Robert De Niro star in this powerful thriller about the birth of the CIA. Edward Wilson (Damon) believes in America and will sacrifice everything he loves to protect it. But as one of the covert founders of the CIA Edward s youthful idealism is slowly eroded by his growing suspicion of the people around him. Everybody has secrets...but will Edward s destroy him? With an all-star cast including Alec Baldwin Billy Crudup William Hurt Timothy Hutton and John Turturro it s the gripping story David Ansen of Newsweek hails as "spellbinding."System Requirements:Runtime: 168 mins Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: R UPC: 025192867125 Manufacturer No: 61028671
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - For Sophisticated Tastes
This film will find a passionate audience among those looking for an intellectual, adult and intense experience.
Rating:  - I spy with my little eye - something beginning with `d' - for dull.
De Niro makes a surprising move here into spy territory - not modern Bourne type stuff (despite the presence of Matt Damon) but more like an American John Le Carre type story, in its understated events and emphasis on character. It's a noble endeavor, at times wonderfully shot - however, it is ultimately too flawed to succeed as entertainment.
The story revolves around the creation of the CIA, seen through the eyes of Edward Wilson (a composite of several real life characters). It plays as ... Read More
Rating:  - Shepherd
Interesting, if disquieting, view of the kind of organization apparently necessary to a nation to stay afloat in today's world: Situation ethics; disposable loyalties; diverse and highly sophisticated technological tools; unswerving but troubling idealisms; personal costs to participants in anguish and guilt; incremental compromises of original principles; patriotic ruthlessness.... Our eventual realization that both our friends and our enemies have similar organizations, for similar reasons, creates ... Read More
Rating: - "I let a stranger into our house."
An excellent film, The Good Shepherd, brings to the screen the events and people that brought about the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The film follows the life and career of Edward Wilson as he plays his role in laying the foundation for one of the best intelligence agencies ever to be set up.
Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin, Angelina Jolie, Michael Gambon, and the rest of this AMAZING cast, have truly outdone themselves with their performances, which are outstanding ... Read More
Rating: - Main character lacks authority
Don't even try to detect whether this movie is about the actual work of the spy or his unhappy family life. Something about the both. At the end of this thinly fictionalized account, one might even get persuaded that the work at the CIA is only for dweebs.
The beginning somehow resembles "The firm", where assiduous youngster ingrows into the closed society. But that's where the similarity ends. Edward Wilson (Damon) isn't Mitch McDeere. Despite his long hours spent in a library, nonchalance about women and ... Read More
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