A League of Mullets Movie Review

Yo, we watched The Good Shepherd and here is our review:

This movie is about the history of the CIA as told through the prism of one man. It takes us through the crazy days of the early part of WW 2 all the way up to the fall out from the Bay of Pigs. The movie shows us the toll on one family, and our whole country symbolically, that years of fighting first the Nazis and then the Soviet Communists. It also shows us the ultimate futility of espionage and the consequences that come with trusting no one ever. It's got more double and triple crosses than you can shake a rat-tail at. It's a well constructed piece of filmmaking and the performances are tighter than a Scotsman's purse.


Matt Damon shines in his role as the male lead of this film. He plays it very muted and he comes off as somewhat of a "cold fish," which of course he has to be in order to keep all the secrets that his character keeps. We totally got the symbolism of why he totally loved deaf chicks in this movie, it's because they could not hear him lie if he had to. His performance in this film reminded us of Al Pacino's performance in The Godfather 2, very restrained but you can see the wheels turning in his head.

Angelina Jolie turned our many heads in her role as the female lead in this movie. We totally dug it that we could not see her many tattoos and that she was also restrained in her performance. It seems that when it comes to acting in this film for Mrs. Not Brad Pitt, that less was indeed more.

(You know, in the right light, Angelina is actually kind of cute and shit.)

Other note worthy performances in this flick were those of the kid who played their son when he was a small boy, Alec Baldwin's turn as a FBI agent who is a pal to Matt Damon, Robert Deniro's, who also directed the movie, cameo as one of the Generals who founded the CIA, and Billy Cruddup's performance as a British Kim Philby type.

(Screw you Affleck, I'm a better actor than you and always have been baby.)

A pair of performances that deserve a special "shout out " were turned in by Michael Gambon and John Sessions. Gambon has given many great performances in many many films and this one is no different. We hope that this is not his last, he is getting on up there after all, but if it is, then it was a doozy. Mr. Sessions on the other hand is almost unknown to audiences over here in the USA but he is huge, no pun intended since he has gained a ton of weight and we almost did not recognize it was him until well into the movie, over in the UK. His perf in this movie was so subtle and complex that it made us appreciate him even more than we did before.

All in all we loved this movie. It had everything, intrigue, beautiful women, and great acting and direction. Not even a character with a mullet could have made this movie any better. We recommend that you either rent it or buy it, but you dang well better watch it.

So say us! So say we all!!!!!