The Boondock Saints [IMPORT]

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Summary: Independent Ideas
Review: The film "Boondock Saints" far surpasses most Hollywood productions from the outset simply by incorporating a plot different from the mainstream. Although the film contains the usual amount of violence and killing for an action movie, this film has the merit that the motive for the murders is very clear, and quite possibly justifiable. The social and moral questions raised throughout the film cannot help but elicit at least some critical thought. But don't worry about being forced to think too hard; the film is routinely punctuated by witty dialogue and amusing circumstances. The main characters, two selfless Irish brothers and a stray Italian, have delightfully good hearts and are endearing from the start. Willem DeFoe puts forth one of his best performances ever, adding creativity to his rough and tough character by portraying an extremely self-assured gay FBI agent who doesn't quite admit his sexual orientation to himself. His character is an excellent addition to the underlying religious theme of the movie as it pronounces the question of what purpose religion should serve, other than to provide moral direction. The film is a must see for anyone who wants to determine what is truly morally correct, as well as anyone who just likes to watch a couple of nice Irish lads following their calling.

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Summary: Awesome Movie
Review: While most people have never even heard of this film before, I do not hesitate to recomend it. A small film, but in the best tradition of thrillers such as desperado, and "lock, stock and two smoking barrels." If you want a film that has a good amount of action, comedy, and a film that defines brotherhood your search should stop here.

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Summary: Don't be dazzled by all the stars - no good.
Review: I'm shocked that people have consistently given this movie 5 stars! It Does nothing for my faith in human discrepency. This film was reccomended to me by the bottle nose in the video store. It's my fault because I should have immediately taken that as a sign that this would be just as annoying as he is, and it was! However, I'm not that hard to please, but this movie failed on all accounts - avoid this trash like diptheria. It attempts to be sharp action flic laced with witty lines, simultaneously action and comedy, but fails to be either and falls miserably between the two gernres into a rip-off/gay abyss of boring viewing. Dufoe's performance is cringe-worthy, and the rest of the acting is no better than B-grade. The renegade vigilante premise of the film has been done before, and to much better effect. If I had seen Billy Connoly's name on the box I would have dropped it like a hot-cake, am I the only one who finds this 'quirky' fool comedically inept? Luckily his role is a essentially a cameo, don't worry, the rest of the script more than makes up for his brand of NOT-FUNNY humour. I wonder why in God's name people reccomend films like this, but then I see all these 5 stars and I realise just how rotten and depraved the taste of the common man is. The film doesn't even stick to it's terrible plot and crumbles half way through like a stale cookie - it uses some extra violence as a crutch for it's weak style - And he only laugh I got was a series of hearty guffaws at the folly of my rental - give me back my 4$!

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Summary: best
Review: best movie ive senn in the longest time. mob, irishmen, comedy, violence, and the black market. its got everything good.

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Summary: Freakin' Awesome
Review: I don't know what some of these people are talking about. This movie is my favorite movie of all time. The actors are all great and the music is phenomenal. Willem Defoe gives an outstanding performance as Agent Smecker, the somewhat odd FBI agent who gets involved with the Saints. The movie has suspense and laughs, it has it all basically. I recommend this movie to anyone and everyone. If I could give this movie more than 5 stars, I would.

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Summary: say a prayer for this film and troy duffy
Review: badly edited film about the efforts of two "religious" irish dudes hell-bent (ha!) on saving the city of boston from dusky italians and ape-ish russkies. features perhaps the most out of control performance of william dafoes career (which is saying quite a bit.) sporting a fantastic soccer mom mullet, william dafoe plays a self-loathing homophobic homosexual who spends most of the film prancing around yelling inane sh*t while pretentious classical music plays in the background. 3/4s of the way through the film dafoe is forced to dress in drag, revealing his uncanny resemblance to a slightly more attractive faye dunaway. i'm telling you, this dafoe guy has range. other than that this movie is atrocious. a movie based on the wet dream of some frat boy from notre dame hung up on the faux-mysticism of catholicism and being irish. what a waste of a night. luckily the girl i watched it with put out. go watch finians rainbow instead.

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Summary: better than mediocre, only by a c-hair
Review: This movie is okay, just okay. It has more holes than swiss cheese in terms of plot, moral message, acting, etc.

Those who say Dafoe's acting is brilliant must not have seen him in any of his other movies where he actually IS great. His character is a straight guy's impression of what a "cool" gay guy would be like- plus the whole FBI crime expert dazzling the lesser-being city cops is such tired B.S. - everyone in the criminal justice field knows that FBI stands for "Famous But Incompetent."

There were flashes of brilliance in the direction/Dafoe character storyline, such as having him appear as an omniscient observer, but then it degenerates into campy overacting/bad writing.

Still, it is reasonably fun, if you can accept it for a fascist fantasy, where the good guys have divinely inspired righteous knowledge of good versus evil and can mete out justice accordingly. The ending is no more ridiculous than the rest of it.

Apparently there is a documentary out now about Troy Duffy and how he thought he really was the Second Coming of Tarantino for a while, until he irritated everyone in Hollywood enough that he got himself blackballed. I'm sure some of the fanatic lovers of this film will have some conspiracy malarky about that, but I look forward to watching this again when the "Troy Duffy is an Ass (or whatever it's called)" documentary is on DVD.

Sorry folks, it ain't that good, but hey, if you enjoy trainwrecks (as I do on occasion), it's good for a laugh.

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Summary: OMG
Review: May the Lord Be with you!!!
And He is with these 2 young men!!!!!!!!!
This is the greatest movie ever made!.
I always ask the clerks at the video stores
if they've seen it... they always give,---what is the Ultimate
seal of approval answer--- "seen it...? I own it!"
A big OMG !!! this rules!!!
and for the bad reviews a big WTF??? your brain dead!


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Summary: Absolutely dreadful!
Review: I don't understand how Willem Defoe agreed to be part of this charade. The acting being nothing short of unbelievable, Defoe tried to make his role work within the perimeters of his silly charcter he has accepted to play. His effortless acting peers don't succeed in following his example as their perfomances make viewers blush. The camera work and the editing are boring, the techno-ey soundtrack wishes it was written by Paul Oakenfold or Paul Van Dyk. The art direction is reminiscent of your avarage TV production.
Duffy tries so hard to portray everybody as amazingly "cool" but fails in imitating cinematic muscleflexers like Tarantino. Furthermore there is an odd homosexual undertone to the characters (other than Defoe's who's character is gay) where all, especially the straight stereotypes, come off as awfully stupid individuals. As for female characters, is it me or don't women exist in Duffy's immature world of cinema?

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Summary: Stupid people.
Review: Take the movie for what it is worth. There are too many people that think they are professional critics. Do you really watch for editing techniques, directing skills, and how well a plot makes sense? Especially if you are so entertained by the movie. I give no respect to anyone that gave this one star. If you didn't like it, say "I really didn't like it. Maybe you will." Just because you think you are a critic and know what a good movie is, you don't... face it. Just because you watch a lot of movies, cause you don't have a life, doesn't mean you have the ability to rate a movie.

I really like this movie, and I would recommend it to anyone that wants to watch a badass movie. I'm not Irish at all.. but after watching this movie, I wanted to be. They are such badasses in the movie that I want to be Irish and be a badass like them. This movie is no different than any Death Wish movie, so screw you people that say that the plot doesn't make any sense. My rating is for what I feel about the movie. I am going to school for directing and I feel as though this movie was very well done for an Indie film. Nicely done... great movie.