http://www.spout.com/blogs/swingdancingred/default.aspxen-USSpout RSShttp://www.spout.com/blogs/swingdancingred/archive/2007/3/10/6264.aspxSat, 10 Mar 2007 09:56:00 GMTcdd0f780-13db-4d93-b0f4-ada579d02ae7:6264SwingDancingRed0http://www.spout.com/blogs/swingdancingred/comments/6264.aspxhttp://www.spout.com/blogs/swingdancingred/commentrss.aspx?PostID=6264<font size="2"><p><a href="http://www.spout.com/films/255832/default.aspx" title="The Good Shepherd (2006)">The greatest mystery of &#39;The Good Shepherd&#39; is how a film with so much potential could go so wrong. Nearly all the ingredients for a decent picture are in obvious abundance here: a terrific cast, excellent acting, great cinematography, fine directing, and subject matter as (seemingly) interesting as the CIA. Yet with all that artistic wealth, it was still fundamentally bankrupt. A flickering contradiction, I watched for the <em>first</em> eighty minutes before the disappointed realization slowly sunk in.&nbsp;It had left out the most essential component to any good film: an effing plot.</a></p></font>