Could have been very interesting if it had been more focused

Rating: 6/10 (4 January 2007)

The Good Shephard could have been more interesting if it had focused more on the relationship between fathers and sons. This movie by Robert DeNiro was trying to be a historical account of the CIA inception which is nice but not exactly the kind of subject to keep people interested for almost three hours. My husband I think was really disappointed when nothing blew up every five minutes and I tried to tell him before we went to the theater that this movie was not Spygames or James Bond. It was interesting and Matt Damon's character was nice to follow but it would have been better is they had cut out the husband-wife ridiculousness and concentrated more on the father and son relationship. In fact it should have focused on all the father and son relationships as more of the Lilly White Men in the movie were following after their fathers.