T his may prove the most curious item to hit screens all year: the latest in a run of microbudget calling-cards for hulking French martial artist Alan Delabie, who co-writes, co-directs, composes some of the incidental music, and would probably even do you a theme tune if it got him closer to the Expendables gig. Last year’s straight-to-streaming The Shepherd Code introduced Delabie’s Alex “the Shepherd” Lapierre – not the dutiful sheepherder that title conjures, but a hired assassin striving to go straight – with inevitable complications. Now it has generated a sequel, despite persisting with a look that more readily recalls home movies than those kickboxer flicks starring Don “the Dragon” Wilson (a guest star here) that went straight-to-VHS three decades ago.

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