although the flock have some pretty good acting by veteran richard gere and and some okay shot that might harken some back to the silence of the lambs day and the movie stretch credibility to the breaking point and destroy itself against a plot that really lead nowhere . the film be about erroll babbage ( gere ) who work for the department of safety and be prepare to retire . his office thrust upon him his replacement and allison lowry ( claire dane and stardust ) and who quickly discover that babbage be obsess with his job . and that job ain not very fun . he monitor hundred of sexual offender who be on parole in his jurisdiction . allison go with erroll on many call to check up on his flock of offender and learn that he be in desperate need of retirement . but erroll be good at his job even if his method aren not . he taunt sexual predator and even have physical conflict with them . erroll justify his action by bring up these deviant past . it be this good justification that challenge the audience on some level and let u see how brutal erroll be and yet how out of touch he become ( by be too close to his job ) . when a teenage girl go miss in erroll area and he immediate leap to the conclusion that she be abduct by one of his flock . but how could he know . be erroll that good at his job . allison challenge him and erroll push back . their battle become as fierce a erroll need to find this miss girl . although the set up for the story be okay and it do not have any umpf . i will give credit to richard gere and however and who play the erroll character very well . battle retirement . worry about everyone who near his flock . disgust with those he responsible for oversee . disgust with himself for have to do some of thing he do . quite a change in character portrayal for gere . but beyond him there not much else . some of the set be okay ( dark and dangerous ) but there be so many other problem a to be laughable . i will be the first to admit that suspend disbelief be a requirement whenever watching film . but that suspension have limit . the big push against those limit be the destruction of extremely vital crime scene . someone as meticulous a erroll would know that move a body would be a huge no no . or trample through a crime scene . or move evidence . it go beyond and hurt the film to no end . the other damaging part of this film be that we never get into clair dane character and allison . she almost drop by the wayside at the end of the film and be never privy to what her intension might be represent will she stay or leave . will she end up like erroll if she do stay . this isn not a horrible film a it do touch on some uncomfortable moral ground and but the story a a whole need to be tighten up .