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The Flock [2008] [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Andrew Lau Actors: Claire Danes, Richard Gere, Avril Lavigne, Kadee Strickland Studio: High Fliers Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £1.26 as of 23/11/2009 22:18 GMT details You Save: £14.73 (92%) New (25) Used (15) from £0.80 Seller: fastdvd2006 Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 18515 Format: PAL Language: English (Unknown) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 101 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5022153100210 ASIN: B001EBO94C Release Date: October 6, 2008 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Not bad October 20, 2008 Johnnybluetime 2 out of 2 found this review helpful The most obvious thing to say about this film is that the director, Andrew Lau, is,belatedly,in thrall to David Fincher's film Seven.Unfortunately, Mr Lau does not seem to possess anything like the talent of Fincher and so he takes an interesting tale and manages to make it less interesting.The first half hour seems like non-stop jump cuts, shaky camera work and arial shots of a car speeding along a desert road.Sound familiar?Thankfully it calms down a little after that, but curiously, despite,or most probably because of,the frenetic editing, the film drags and seems much longer than it actually is. br / br /This really is a shame,because Gere does some of his best work since Internal Affairs,unashamedly playing against his pretty boy image as a burnt-out sex offenders probation officer.Clare Danes is pretty good too, as are most of the cast, and the plot could have made for a really good, low-key thriller.Unfortunately, Lau's direction is shamelessly derivative,at times adolescently unpleasant,and frankly second rate.However,if you can sit through the first half hour, there is something worthwile struggling to get out here.There are some moments that are laughable,these are probation officers after all, so why don't they just call the cops etc.but overall it's not bad.Five stars for Gere's performance,four for Danes and minus one for Lau's dreadful direction. OK film May 22, 2009 S. Balloo (Essex England) I nearly turned the DVD off after 20mins. Carried on to the end. Not a film I would watch again

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