Saturday, January 06, 2007

The Good Shephard


**1/2 Stars

Robert DeNiro teams up with Francis Ford Coppolla for a shot at making The Godfather of CIA movies with The Good Shephard. Is there an Oscar is its future? The answer is no.


This is the story of Edward Wilson (a fine performance from Matt Damon) and really nothing else. He is the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale. From there it shows him suffering with his family and how he is basically a ghost to them. Angelina Jolie plays his hot wife but DeNiro doesn't use her enough. This film dissapoints coming from two men who took major parts in some of the greatest films ever produced. They try there best to use this material, but the story is just not exciting. Edward Wilson's life story feels boggled down with no pulse

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