The Shepherd
2008
Action
The Shepherd isn't a terrible film - it's a bland DTV/straight-to-DVD actioner that is just unbelievably boring and forgettable with a lazy approach going for it. Jean -Claude ditches the flashy moves in favour of a more wham, bam style in terms of fighting. A New Orleans cop relocates to New Mexico & help border patrol stem the flow of drug smugglers and illegal immigrants. The story is mundane and in all honesty, one watches a Van Damme film just to see him beat up the bad guys, although fights here are nothing you haven't seen before - and he had better fight scenes and action sequences in several films back in the 1980s and 1990s. Most of his films aren't great, but some of them do have an entertainment factor going for them: sadly though this offering just isn't it. Van Damme is okay, but the older Van Damme ditched the showboating antics, the script is questionable and weak and still, nobody who tunes in will care and the action is cliched. The use of sped-up footage can be offputting, whilst the main villain should have been Scott Adkins, as opposed to the other actor. The fight between Adkins and Van Damme wasn't bad though. As far as JCVD offerings go, I've seen several of them, and yet The Shepherd is the blandest I have come across so far. I just couldn't believe how tiresome this was.
Is It Worth Watching?
Die-hard Jean- Claude fanatics only
Overall:
2008
Action
The Shepherd isn't a terrible film - it's a bland DTV/straight-to-DVD actioner that is just unbelievably boring and forgettable with a lazy approach going for it. Jean -Claude ditches the flashy moves in favour of a more wham, bam style in terms of fighting. A New Orleans cop relocates to New Mexico & help border patrol stem the flow of drug smugglers and illegal immigrants. The story is mundane and in all honesty, one watches a Van Damme film just to see him beat up the bad guys, although fights here are nothing you haven't seen before - and he had better fight scenes and action sequences in several films back in the 1980s and 1990s. Most of his films aren't great, but some of them do have an entertainment factor going for them: sadly though this offering just isn't it. Van Damme is okay, but the older Van Damme ditched the showboating antics, the script is questionable and weak and still, nobody who tunes in will care and the action is cliched. The use of sped-up footage can be offputting, whilst the main villain should have been Scott Adkins, as opposed to the other actor. The fight between Adkins and Van Damme wasn't bad though. As far as JCVD offerings go, I've seen several of them, and yet The Shepherd is the blandest I have come across so far. I just couldn't believe how tiresome this was.
Is It Worth Watching?
Die-hard Jean- Claude fanatics only
Overall:
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