Matt Damon is bored and so am I

Rating: 3/10 (23 February 2007)

This movie made me aware of the pain and suffering that is actually caused by sitting around for a long time. I could feel every cell, every nerve of my body ache during this movie because there was nothing else to catch my attention. What did DeNiro need ten years for? Ten years for making such a boring, pointless mess of a movie? Was this his plan to create a weapon of mass destruction? Well, my mind felt assaulted all right by having to watch Damon's bored and expressionless face for almost three hours (that felt like, well, three decades at least). And this after I had already suffered through The Departed! I can't believe this guy is seen as an actor! Even a dead body does more acting than Matt Damon! A good story should have, as we all have learned in school, a beginning, a middle part with climax and an ending. The Good Shepherd had nothing! Whenever I believed that a circle was about to be closed and the film would finally come to an end or at least to some point, there was just another circle about to be closed. And another. And so on. A stinking onion of a movie, unfolding one layer of boredom after another. A boring film about boredom and boring people from boring people for boring people.