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The Boondock Saints

The Boondock Saints

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Surprisingly Wonderful Action Film...
Review: A very overlooked action film that combines humor and a very slick, cool, and fast visual style worthy of any Gen X'er (or teenager). Filmed in Canada but set in what looks like a Boston-style neighborhood, the film stars Willem Dafoe (Last Temptation of Christ), Sean Flanery (Powder) and Norman Reedus. Feeling that they are doing 'God's will', two Catholic men from Boston set out to kill everyone in this Reservoir Dogs-style vigilante thriller. This film is very funny but took me a while before I 'got it'. I saw the humor right away but didn't understand what the hell the movie was about or where it was going. By the end of the film you're dying to know who they are going to kill next. Even though it is almost a parody on action films and border lines cheesiness, it packs a heck of a action-movie punch. Lots of violence and some sexual situations.....so leave the kids out of this one!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Awesome action
Review: Great movie that should have been on the big screen. Filmed in an interesting way that i have never scene which made it interesting. I am even planning on buying it even though I saw it at a friends. The Boston accents are a little off, but other than that it is a great movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome
Review: Great movie, the deleted scenes are even greater. As an Irish person, I had so much fun watching the movie and hearing those accents.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: review
Review: It was a good movie, but there was still some missing plot and it was pretty unrealistic. It's fun to watch as long as you're not really thinking.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Shot 'Em Up, Line 'Em Up
Review: The Irish brothers Connor MacManus and Murphy 'Murph' MacManus are faithful Catholics who have a wicked streak within them. After helping a couple of Russian mobsters out of their local bar and later killing these gangsters they are named Saints by the news. This results in the brothers acquiring the necessary tools to continue their "cleansing" of the cities lower elements. However, the police are on their trail with the cunning FBI Agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe) as their leader. The brothers see this as a threat to their calling, but at the same time the Agent Smecker is seen as good. Boondock Saints is an energetic film with humor and drama that deals with moral issues of today and entertains the audience. The film provides an experience that leaves the audience with a little of everything and still something to ponder.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: There's a storm comin'... and it's ALL SAINTS DAY!
Review: The Boondock Saints (Troy Duffy, 2001)

Boy howdy!

Despite a surfeit of talent and some of the funniest dialogue since Quentin Tarantino picked up a pen, Troy Duffy's feature film debut, The Boondock Saints, went straight to video. Considering the nauseating stuff that comes out of Hollywood these days, it's probably not a surprise-the better something is, the less chance it will ever see a big screen. Case in point: right here. Two Irish brothers (The Dead Zone's Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus, recently seen in Blade 2) try to prevent the closing down of an Irish bar on St. Patrick's Day by the Russian mafia. Things go wrong, but the right guys wind up dead. While the murder is investigated by the oddest FBI agent you're likely to find on a screen for the past twenty years (Willem Dafoe), the brothers, along with their halfwit sidekick Funnyman (David Della Rocco-whose character has the same given name as the actor) from the Italian mob, decide that vigilantism seems like the right path to be taking with their careers. The boys form the Boondock Saints and start cleaning up the streets, and the more the FBI Agent sees of their work, the more conflicted he gets as to whether he should be catching them or aiding them. The mobs-both Russian and Italian-are not so happy, and so they recruit a stone killer known only as Il Duce (Billy Connolly, who's been in so many good movies he should've been in Hollywood's A-list a decade ago) to take the Saints on.

Sound complicated? It is. It's also miles and miles of fun. Not for the weak of stomach-the dialogue is not the only way in which Duffy's work resembles Tarantino's. Also not for those who sour quickly on profanity. For the rest of us, this is a treat, a movie with speed-of-light pacing, snappy dialogue, lots of things blowing up, and more panache than you can shake a stick at, pal.

Thankfully, The Boondock Saints has hit cult status on video, prodding Duffy to once again take up the pen, hire back all the survivirs from the first film, and start shotting Boondock II: All Saints Day. With any luck, Duffy will get himself a big-screen release and this movie will get the attention it has long deserved from a much wider audience. ...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: excellent movie
Review: my friend told me about this movie and he said it was awesome. i finally saw it and i fully agreed with him. it is by far one of the best movies i have seen. if you dont mind alot of killing and swearing, rent or buy this movie.!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Is there a soundtrack made for this movie?!
Review: This is an awesome movie, you will love it. You will find yourself wanting to memroize every word said. Its so good that i want to get a soundtrack of it but i do not know if there was one ever made...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Defoe is Great!
Review: Defoe is over the top in this violent story of righteous vigilantes. Worth it just to watch him strutt his stuff.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fan-freakin-tastic
Review: T. Duffy did an awesome job with this film. The editing, the story line, the characters are all top-notch. This is easily one of the most underated films of all time. Well worth the price.


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