Review of The Flock (2007) by Greg T — 20 Sep 2009
Babbage is the Dirty Harry of social workers - cracking skulls and taking names as he wades through the perverse sex-offender scum on his beat. As he breaks in his replacement, sympathetic lip-trembler Claire Danes, he sinks further into the mire to save a young girl who may have been kidnapped by one of his charges.
There's a good idea for a story here, and Gere's Babbage is an agreeably brutal anti-hero, but Andy Lau's over-stylisation and a by-the-numbers detective plot let the whole thing down. And, sacrilege of sacrileges, Avril Lavigne almost strips, but then is stopped.
What kind of director would do that to his audience? Minus one star for you Lau,you tease.
This review of The Flock (2007) was written by Greg T on 20 Sep 2009.
The Flock has generally received positive reviews.
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