Movie Review: The Good Shepard

Posted by Evan on December 27, 2006

I went to see the Good Shepard last night but I am still kind of confused. I need someone who is a little bit less easily confused than me to go see it, because the person I went with was more clueless than I when we left.

It is a story about the beginnings of the CIA and its intelligence operations but there really wasn’t as much 007 spy type stuff as I suspected, I guess a setting in the 1940s will do that. It was a good movie but really long (3 hrs) and drawn out. There really weren’t any highs and lows it was all just constant confusion to me.

For those who have seen it answer these questions for me:

1. Was the German deaf translator chic, the same one in the picture with Ulyceses?

2. Was the Senator the leak in Cuba?

3. Is his son in the CIA?

4. Is Matt Damon now an “asset” for the KGB?

5. How hot is Angelina Jolie?

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  • I have no idea what 1 & 2 are, but...

    3. YES...his son was in the CIA, that's why he was in the Congo meeting his wife or soon to be wife (Were they already married, because his dad called her his 'wife'? and wait, why was she on a plane at all? Wasn't she already in the Congo or was she moving to the US w/out him? Huh?)

    4. NO. I mean YES. He "declines the offer" to give up his son and betray his country, but if you ask me, he's silently agreeing to be there for their small favor that will "cost him very little" in the future. His character always sat in silent agreement, doing what he was asked afterall. That's his pattern. His "No" in that scene with the Russian was his first real "No" in the movie/his life, but he couldn't hold his ground. Actually, it's kind of scary to note that someone that high up in the CIA was so bad at making his own decisions. He did everything everyone else asked him to do.

    5. Smokin hot. Man, she was the best thing in this movie. But she never aged. She looked bedraggled (tired and alcoholic, but not old).

    Very fun picking through this movie...
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