With a run time close to three hours, The Good Shepherd doesn’t win any awards from me. Watching it last night was a test of my patience. Either I just didn’t get it, they didn’t tell the story clearly enough, or, perhaps it was all those code words the agents were using. I didn’t get the translation manual. There were several parts completely unexplained – I didn’t know who was responsible for what and why.
Maybe that’s the point. A lot of backhanded things being done for some unknown reason by a lot of unlikable characters. Save your three hours for something else!