Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

timothycrugnale Pretty boring. Whole thing feels like a director from Criminal Minds shot it and I don't mean that in a good way. Danes was horrible in this flick. The only gem in here was Ray Wise, excellent acting by him, as always. Don't waste your time, unless your having trouble sleeping.

The Couchpotatoes I thought this movie deserved way more stars then it has been given. I can see why people want to compare it with Se7en or Silence of the lambs because of the sex offenders and sadistic tendencies of the criminals. Well it's the same kind of story but I would not compare it with the other masterpieces that are way better then this one. This movie has just its own story and I enjoyed it from the beginning till the end. Richard Gere gave a solid performance as the sex offender hunter. It's just a nice entertaining movie and honestly I don't get why people would be disappointed to watch this movie. There are way worse movies then this one.

SnoopyStyle Erroll Babbage (Richard Gere) works at the Department of Public Safety tirelessly rigorously checking on sex offenders. He is close to retirement and forced to train his young replacement Allison Lowry (Claire Danes). She tries to be sympathetic to Viola Frye (KaDee Strickland) who spins a sob story whereas Erroll takes justice into his own hands. Then 17 years old Harriet Wells turns up missing, and Erroll is given a clue. The cops and everybody else dismisses his suspicion that it's one of his charge.Richard Gere plays a great obsessive dark personality. Claire Danes is a great foil as the slight naive newbie. Together this duo has great chemistry. Hong Kong director Wai-Keung Lau doesn't have quite the dark style for this subject matter. It would have been great with a darker director like David Fincher. The movie doesn't have the needed thrills or tension.

charlytully Ambrose no doubt will empathize with the decline of Richard Gere (here, parole officer Errol Babbage) if he couples his initial viewing of THE FLOCK with PRETTY WOMAN as a prequel. Though Claire Danes (playing Errol's partner Allison Lowry) has replaced Julia Roberts as Gere's horse-faced woman, Father Time has reduced the chemistry between this pairing by 99% compared to the previous movie, also staged among the milieu of the horsey set. Bierce will get a kick out of the opening, as well, with the teen girls riding astride in a manner which probably diverges from what was considered "proper" during his own youth in the late 1850s.TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The body of noted American author (An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge) Ambrose Bierce, born June 24, 1842, recently was discovered in total cryogenic hibernation at the back of a Central American warehouse. Bierce is expected to be fully defrosted by late 2049 or early 2050. Based on my 85 previously posted IMDb comments and background in Bierce studies, the author's guardians have commissioned me to review a periodically updated list of films to help guide his future leisure pursuits, with the provision that my comments also be made available to the general public.