★ 7 / 10
Just about enjoyable. <em>'The Shepherd: Border Patrol'</em> is
r96sk
Just about enjoyable. 'The Shepherd: Border Patrol' is a solid enough, mindless action film. Jean-Claude Van Damme (Jack) certainly carries things, but Natalie…
Just about enjoyable.
'The Shepherd: Border Patrol' is a solid enough, mindless action film. Jean-Claude Van Damme (Jack) certainly carries things, but Natalie J. Robb (Capt. García) is fairly good in her role. All the antagonists are very much cliché and predictable, though.
The film attempts a load of heartfelt and profound storylines which don't really connect at all, with any twists it produces hardly surprising one bit. However, if you take this for want it is - a 95 minute brawl - then you can find ways to get entertainment from it.
If you like this genre, you'll probably rate this 2008 production from Isaac Florentine.
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★ 5 / 10
wow, an excellent dtv actioner
blythblue
Lately i have been very impressed with Jean Claude Van Damme's recent form in his newer DTV movie's.The hard corps was entertaining if not a little…
Lately i have been very impressed with Jean Claude Van Damme's recent form in his newer DTV movie's.The hard corps was entertaining if not a little shallow,Until Death was superb and show cased one of Van Damme's best performances ,Then he moved onto The Shepherd:border patrol,a solid action movie with some reminiscence of some of the older classic Van Damme movie's.The fight scene's were impressive, in-particular the final show down with complex camera work and terrific athletic prowess.I hope Jean Claude continues in this way,some of his recent effort's are even more impressive than when he was a big box office draw. 8 out of 10
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★ 6 / 10
Not too bad.
ColonelFaulkner
This one brings my collection of Van Damme films up to 25, some good, some stinkers; and although It may be fair to say I'm a fan, I'm no fanatic, haven't…
This one brings my collection of Van Damme films up to 25, some good, some stinkers; and although It may be fair to say I'm a fan, I'm no fanatic, haven't watched any of his films for a while and I certainly couldn't tell you what he eats for breakfast in the morning or which high school he attended. Like Forrest Gump might have said about his movies, a JCVD film is like a box of chocolates, you just don't know what you're going to get (though you most likely have have some inkling) and there are more than a few turkey flavoured ones in his box).
With perhaps the lamest title of all his films and a dubious 'Steven Seagal' like premise, not to mention some cringe inducing dialogue, fair share of implausability and plot holes (nice to know they have a full time bomb squad and short notice standby in a little border town of 1800), this could be called something of a coin toss or even something to avoid for the more discerning film fan who can't stand the guy or who feels the urge for more intellectual stimulation.
For those with enough of that in their other pursuits and who just want to kick back and be entertained, you may be pleasantly surprised. On a night I was expecting to fall asleep in front of anything I watched, It kept me interested and awake, something 'The Godfather' didn't do last week.
As an out and out action vehicle, I found this pretty entertaining. It keeps moving along, with several spectacular and hard hitting ass whipping scenes, sufficient gunplay thrown in and a score reminiscent of 'Once Upon a Time in the West'.
As far as his recent films go, I would compare this to 'Wake of Death' in terms of quality and while it didn't quite nail it (like most of his films) for the reasons mentioned previously, it wasn't without some quality moments.
5/10 as a 'movie' & 7/10 for the bits you watch this sort of film for = 6/10 overall, a good pass mark. I recommend it and don't think it would disappoint any action fan who isn't expecting a Van Damme flick to send them into orbit.
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Scot Adkins and JVD what more could you want? I've pretty much liked every single Scott Adkins movie directed by Isaac Florentine I'm sure this will be no different.