The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008) (V)

Note des utilisateurs:

5.6/10   

Réalisateur:

Isaac Florentine

Writers:

Cade Courtley (writer)
Joe Gayton (writer)

Release Date:

4 mars 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Thriller

Accroche:

Welcome To Mexico

Plot:

A texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA. |

Plot Keywords:

Mexico | Shirtless Male Bondage | Bus | Drug Smuggling | Drug War

Avis des utilisateurs:

Another good DTV from Van Damme

Ensemble

Jean-Claude Van Damme	...	Jack Robideaux
Stephen Lord	...	Benjamin Meyers
Natalie J. Robb	...	Capt. Ramona Garcia
Gary McDonald	...	Billy Pawnell
Daniel Perrone	...	Felix Nestor
Scott Adkins	...	Karp
Andrée Bernard	...	Lexxi
Dan Davies	...	Emile
Miles Anderson	...	Arthur Pennigton
Luis Algar	...	Benito Ortiz
Todd Jensen	...	Wray
Ivaylo Geraskov	...	Gallery (as Ivailo Geraskov)
Velislav Pavlov	...	The Contact
Phil McKee	...	Jed
Bogdan Plakov	...	Turgell

Autre(s) titre(s):

The Shepherd (UK)
Trafic mortel (France) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and brief nudity.

Durée:

95 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Classification:

USA:R | Germany:18 | Netherlands:16 | Argentina:16 | Singapore:M18 | UK:15 | Sweden:15 | Australia:MA

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Bulgaria

Company:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: On Robideaux's first day at the station, as all of the agent's are leaving their morning meeting, you can clearly see that one of the agents is wearing his belt too high.

Guillemet:

Billy Pawnell: The border. We can't go into Mexico.
Jack Robideaux: F*ck the border.

Soundtrack:

Strange Face of Love

Another good DTV from Van Damme

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. =)