{"id":2034,"date":"2007-03-08T22:07:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T22:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-2034.html"},"modified":"2008-02-09T00:09:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T00:09:33","slug":"the-good-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2007\/03\/08\/the-good-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Good Shepherd<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been called &#8220;<i>The Godfather<\/i> of spy films&#8221;, and it&#8217;s easy to see the comparison.  Even leaving aside Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s involvement, both movies are intense, measured examinations of family, loyalty, secrecy and betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>Although I love spy action films, I actually much prefer my spy stories to delve into the mechanics and politics behind the scenes. <i>The Good Shepherd<\/i> does this magnificently.  Don&#8217;t expact any big explosions or hyperactive stunts.  <em>Do<\/em> expect a set of awesome performances from an all-star ensemble cast.  In particular, Matt Damon&#8217;s depiction of cautious, withdrawn spymaster Edward Wilson could hardly be further removed from his turn as Jason Bourne.  Very highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been called &#8220;The Godfather of spy films&#8221;, and it&#8217;s easy to see the comparison. Even leaving aside Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s involvement, both movies are intense, measured examinations of family, loyalty, secrecy and betrayal. Although I love spy action films, I actually much prefer my spy stories to delve into the mechanics and politics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1562,1558,1142,1327,1560],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_45_stars","tag-angelinejolie","tag-francisfordcoppola","tag-legendshome","tag-mattdamon","tag-robertdeniro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}