Reviews

OK...so i love Roland Emmerich's stuff. patriot, amazing...day after tomorrow, really good...

10,000 BC....might as well nuke it 10,000 times.

holy crap it was bad. had the potential to be one of the best epics ever made...seriously...think about the concept, its pretty cool! but it was just awful, and i don't understand WHY it had to be! there was literally almost no plot line....horrible accents, horrible acting, everyone spoke perfect English in a supposed film that takes place approximately 12,000 years ago...they should have literally been speaking gibberish with subtitles...i would have accepted that. also no sense of where the movie was taking place, oh my gosh do you want me to keep going!? at least i work at the movie theater so i didn't waste $9.00. do not pay for this movie! seriously don't even watch it. just look at pictures of it on google. they are better than watching it.

After seeing Undisputed 2, I knew what to expect from Isaac Florentine.

The Shepherd: Border Patrol is a decent flick (not Van Damme's best, but definitely not his worst.) There is some bad acting from VD's supporting cast, but it makes sense.

The storyline and plot has all been done before, so it's nothing new. I mean this is Van Damme. We don't really expect much of an amazing plot do we? So lets talk about what we all want to watch this movie for anyway: the fighting.

Without giving anything away, I thought the way the fights were filmed and shot were well done, way better than a few of VD's recent movies such as Second in Command, in which the entire end fight is HORRIBLE. With Florentine behind the camera, and if you've seen Undisputed 2, he seems to know how to photograph fights and enjoys it. A few of the fights in The Shepherd reminded me of VD's older stuff which is what we all want to see. The fights were good, and i said "hah, awesome" out loud a few times. But I was hoping for just a bit more considering how good I thought Undisputed 2 was.

Something I found intriguing was VD's daughter in the film, I thought "wow she's kinda hot" come to find out, its Bianca Van Varenberg, JC's real life daughter. I have never seen her before so that was a nice treat.

All in all, this movie is not half bad. Yeah the story has been done before but at least JC was attempting to make a good movie. Next time though, add more hand to hand combat! I think He still has what it takes to do another big budget movie...his acting has improved since he's been doing DTV's and he really is in great shape at 47. I don't know about you but I'm one of the ones who thinks that most of his DTV's are actually good with the exception of Derailed. All he needs to do is get back into "bloodsport" shape, and make a martial arts movie...and I think people would respond well even though he's not jet Li. This movie is definitely worth the rental. =)