| Shepherd (2000) Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Roddy Piper, David Carradine, Heidi von Pelleske Shepherd is a movie that is surprisingly entertaining despite itself, not in the way it's intended to be though. Shepherd is a movie that begs to be seen by a group of friends and a keg of beer which will get you over the unbelievably cheap sets and campy acting which punctuates this otherwise routine Roger Corman outing which stars Howell (Seriously slumming) as an assassin who decides to go renegade and fight Roddy Piper (In a delightfully awful-ham performance.) a religious fanatic who kills lot of people, oh there's also a worthless sub-plot that all the characters are living underground because of the world's hostile weather (Or something?) but mainly this is best viewed as a comedy. Especially with dialog like "There's a special place for you in Satan's Asshole" and this little beauty "I smell boycattle!" all delivered with blank conviction. That being said, how far have the mighty fallen? C. Thomas Howell at one time in his career was making movies with Francis Ford Coppola and James Earl Jones and now he's making low budget clunkers like this, Roddy Piper used to work with directors like John Carpenter and now he's working in this. It's not an understatement that both actors have seen much better days, but a few decent actionscenes and quite a few unintentional laughs raise the entertainment level a notch. D.Peter Hayman ** (*) for people who don't like bad movies. |