The Good Shepherd

So I went and saw "The Good Shepherd" tonight. One word comes to mind - interminable. I really wanted to like the film; it's got a great cast and is set in an interesting world, but the plot is so byzantine and the pacing so plodding that I just couldn't get into it. It doesn't help matters that I didn't care about a single one of the characters. That's not entirely true, I suppose I did find the John Turturro and Robert De Niro characters intriguing, unfortunately their combined screen time is probably somewhere around thirty minutes. The film is getting good review apparently, but try as I might, I just couldn't find it in myself to like it.