The Top 10 Highest-Profile Straight-to-DVD Releases
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
2. The Flock
The Big Losers: Richard Gere, Claire Danes
Deservedly Dumped?: In the past year Gere’s delivered three masterful performances—in The Hoax, The Hunting Party and this morbid, measured thriller by Infernal Affairs’s Andrew Lau—but no one’s noticed. Maybe Richard Gere thought this would be his Seven. But we’ve seen Seven. So despite the tense atmosphere that Lau creates, we know what path public safety officer Richard Gere and his rookie replacement Danes will predictably take as they hunt down the sex offenders they suspect kidnapped a girl. As our eyes and ears, Danes admirably expresses the revulsion we feel at the sick and twisted world she must explore. But Richard Gere tears through the proceedings with all the anger and frustration of a seen-it-all lawman now willing to broke the rules. He once again proves that he gets better the older he gets.
Stars: 2.5