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Recommended The Good Shepherd (2006)

Robert De Niro, 2006

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Over a decade on from his terrific A Bronx Tale, De Niro returns to the director's chair with a film that attempts to tell a secret history of America. Much underrated upon its initial release – above all by critics perhaps expecting something comparable to Casino Royale or The Bourne Supremacy – The Good Shepherd charts the development of the CIA through the interlinked personal and professional lives of one of its operatives, Matt Damon's Edward Wilson, the sort of stickler for detail the Agency must routinely pursue.
De Niro mainly treats international espionage as compelling desk work, although one just-batty-enough-to-be-true set-piece shows the CIA deploying locusts to ruin a South American politician, and a truly hideous scene towards the end suggests how the innocent are often the first casualties of the spy game. It remains a classy, slow-burn, intriguingly murky drama, full of men in raincoats stepping out of the shadows to utter dialogue that sounds like code to be cracked – "We have a stranger in the house" – even when it isn't.

Mike McCahill on 21st May 2007

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Film Details

Director

Robert De Niro

Year

2006

Country

USA

Cast

Robert De Niro, William Hurt, Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin, Joe Pesci, Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie

Technical Details

Certificate

15

Length

167 mins

Label

UN

Format

DVD Colour

Region

2

Aspect

2.40 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Cat No

8248390

Main Language

English

Subtitles

Spanish, Bulgarian, German

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