I've been meaning to watch this movie for years, because I knew "Pastor Shepherd" growing up. Spoiler alert: his name isn't really Pastor Shepherd, or even Mr. Shepherd. I finally found the time recently after I stumbled upon the full-length version on YouTube.

Oh my gods this film is awful. I'm perplexed by the number of 10 star reviews. Those must have been left by "Shepherd's" friends and family because there is no way an objective person could watch it and conclude that it's anything other than lousy. Unless perhaps they have horrible taste in entertainment, which wouldn't be a surprise at all given that the kind of people who made "Honey Boo-Boo" and "Duck Dynasty" hit shows helped put an incompetent con-man in the White House. But I digress.

The "plot" consists of Mr. Shepherd grinning maniacally through a series of disconnected scenes on his way to becoming a televangelist. The acting (except for Trejo & Laas) is generally high school second-string JV drama club level. The humor is lame. Every punch line fell flat, I never once cracked a smile. I feel worse off for having seen this movie.

The cover of the dvd has Danny Trejo holding a baseball bat with a fierce look. It's billed on the back as an "action" movie. There's no action. Zero. Zip. Nada. None at all. Which is fine if you aren't being mislead about the content. The content is more of an indie comedy. The main character, Shepherd, played by someone called Pastor Shepherd (not kidding), is given zero billing. I had to dig around to find his name. His image, even though he is the main character that predominates every scene, is not on the cover. This is just a boring, weird, meandering movie where you desperately wait and wait for something, anything, interesting to happen but it never does. It's beneath Danny Trejo.

I watched this movie based on the reviews I've seen here. Unfortunately, I am now completely convinced that my personal tastes are a literal light year and a fathom away from the tastes of other viewers.

This movie was just painful. The story moves on at a torturous pace, and is filled with dialog that is funny at first, but gets old very quickly. The characters are absolutely just bizarre, and a few of them make no sense at all. The protagonist, Mr. Shepherd, has the intelligence of a "dumb and dumber" type hero, and much of the film centers around him describing the world from his point of view. In light of that, I highly suggest you remove your brain before watching. Perhaps leave it in a jar by your bed. You know, someplace you won't lose it, and won't feel guilty for not having it on you for the evening.

Danny Trejo is as good as he can be with what he was given, but that's still no reason to put his face on the cover with a baseball bat. It's very misleading, because this movie is not about him.

I'm rating this movie at a 5. It was not the worst movie I've ever seen and did have one or two good moments. The best parts are the over-generalizations of the TV evangelists who are used-car-salesman type preachers. Fun to watch, but still just a play on a stereotype. Not very original. Production value was quite good, it was only difficult to watch because of it's content, not because of it's plot cohesion or filming.

All in all, I did not enjoy it. But to each their own, apparently some others did.