This is one of those movies that must be included on the list of "potential movies that you have a total dislike just by watching the first five minutes". And I watched the whole thing! The plot could have be interesting but it was almost a rip-off of "The Pledge" where you have a disturbed police officer fighting his own demons to fulfill a promise of catching a rapist of a child. But many things in "The Flock" were over used, over played, laughable and pathetic just to name a few adjectives.
Richard Gere is a federal agent in constant vigilance of paroled sex offenders and he's on the trail of a missing girl probably kidnapped by a known suspect of his list. He's been forced to get a retirement because of his bad behavior and in his last case he must train a female young officer to take his place (played by Claire Danes). To make things hard to his partner he's a difficult guy to be with, he doesn't know how to sustain a conversation, and he's always taking care of the case, barely talks about his private life (if he has one except that he beats all the sex offenders he knows).
Why this movie didn't worked well? There was nothing thrilling about it, nothing shocking or even interesting to see. There's a statement in the beginning of the film quoting the numbers of cases in U.S. about how many women are sexually assaulted in matters of minutes and it seems to me (at that point) that the movie would follow a strong denounce on that, a warning sign to representants of governments about what's happening or a complain about the lack of efficient police services or something similar. It turns out to be a road to nowhere with awkward situations such as when Gere's character loses his mind to the point of beating up a guy in a restaurant just because he was kissing passionately his own girlfriend. That happened after Claire Danes told him about many clues of the case they were working. Most laughable moment ever in the film.
Gere is quite alright in the film, but Claire Danes once again added nothing to her filmography and to the part she was playing. Weird and crying faces were just to silly to show all her skills of playing a good agent with a traumatic past (Clarice Starling's syndrome appears here again). Worst than her performance was the editing and the photography. Remember when I said about the first bad minutes of this film? It's all because of the crazy editing with some annoying stylistic thriller rhythm; and the terrible cinematography with some pitiful effects trying to create an atmosphere of disturbing things, too many unnecessary cuts and voice overs, everything out of order.
Everything here is repetitive, boring and you're gonna fall asleep towards the ending. I don't recommend! 3/10
Richard Gere is a federal agent in constant vigilance of paroled sex offenders and he's on the trail of a missing girl probably kidnapped by a known suspect of his list. He's been forced to get a retirement because of his bad behavior and in his last case he must train a female young officer to take his place (played by Claire Danes). To make things hard to his partner he's a difficult guy to be with, he doesn't know how to sustain a conversation, and he's always taking care of the case, barely talks about his private life (if he has one except that he beats all the sex offenders he knows).
Why this movie didn't worked well? There was nothing thrilling about it, nothing shocking or even interesting to see. There's a statement in the beginning of the film quoting the numbers of cases in U.S. about how many women are sexually assaulted in matters of minutes and it seems to me (at that point) that the movie would follow a strong denounce on that, a warning sign to representants of governments about what's happening or a complain about the lack of efficient police services or something similar. It turns out to be a road to nowhere with awkward situations such as when Gere's character loses his mind to the point of beating up a guy in a restaurant just because he was kissing passionately his own girlfriend. That happened after Claire Danes told him about many clues of the case they were working. Most laughable moment ever in the film.
Gere is quite alright in the film, but Claire Danes once again added nothing to her filmography and to the part she was playing. Weird and crying faces were just to silly to show all her skills of playing a good agent with a traumatic past (Clarice Starling's syndrome appears here again). Worst than her performance was the editing and the photography. Remember when I said about the first bad minutes of this film? It's all because of the crazy editing with some annoying stylistic thriller rhythm; and the terrible cinematography with some pitiful effects trying to create an atmosphere of disturbing things, too many unnecessary cuts and voice overs, everything out of order.
Everything here is repetitive, boring and you're gonna fall asleep towards the ending. I don't recommend! 3/10