Matt Damon Sets the Mongoose Free



With The Good Shepherd, director Robert Dinero tells the story of Edward Wilson and the inception of the CIA. The cast reads like a fantasy roster of crime movies since 1990, though George Clooney, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino are oddly missing. Joe Pesci is still alive and needs work? Fantastic. Let's take over the world!

At least that's what I thought until I visited www.thegoodshepherdmovie.com, where I learned the movie includes Wilson's days as a poetry student at Yale University, and his induction into the super-ultra-secret Skull & Bones society. Universal Pictures wisely left this material out of the trailer. What a boring overlong bummer this movie will be. Sorry Bobby, this has "Best Picture Nominee" written all over it.