The Flock (film)
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| Theme/Genre | Crime / Drama | |
| Starring | Richard Gere, Claire Danes, KaDee Strickland, Ray Wise, Russell Sams | |
| Directed by | Niels Mueller, Wai-keung Lau | |
| Studio | Weinstein Company | |
| Released | May 20, 2008 | |
| Runtime | 96 Mins | |
| language | English | |
| AMG Info | All Movie Guide | |
| IMDB Info | 0473356 on IMDb | |
| Buy it from | Amazon.com on DVD | |
THE FLOCK is the story of hyper-vigilant federal agent who, while training his young female replacement, must track down a missing girl whom he is convinced is connected to a paroled sex offender he's investigating. Working against the clock they unravel the twisted details to track the potential killer.
After "Chicago", I was beginning to lose all respect for Richard Gere and then along came The Flock. There's just so far a nice smile and a couple of stock facial gestures can get you, but he proved to me that he's finally gotten hold of his craft and can act with the best of them. Clare Danes was also super as his "trainee/replacement". Some have suggested there was too much unnecessary violence, but I don't see it that way. Nothing I saw detracted from the power of this film. I was really shocked I hadn't heard of it being released in theaters and came across it at Blockbuster instead. Really an exceptional film with just the right blend of action, suspense, thrills, and social consciousness. As good as 7even? Well, maybe. And you'll see better acting out of Gere than anyone's ever gotten out of Pitt.
The paranoid registrant administrator of the Department of Public Safety Erroll Babbage (Richard Gere) is forced to an early retirement due to his abusive behavior against the sex offenders that he should monitor, and shall spend his last eighteen days training his replacement Allison Lowry (Clare Danes). When the seventeen years old Harriet Wells (Kristina Sisco) is considered missing in his area of work, Errol is convinced that her disappearance is related to one of his parole sex offenders. However, his superiors do not believe on his investigations and he convinces Allison to follow him in the sick underworld of pornography and perversions trying to find the missing girl.
- Written by Claudio Cavalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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