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Style, Entertainment, Quality and "Slalvation"
... I watched this movie, with no subtitles, which makes viewing g it difficult because of the thick accents, and found the copy to be hard to view. Throughout all the hindrances I found myself entranced in the movie. I consider my first viewing when I was finally able to purchase the DVD. The film is absolutely fabulous. The plot and characters are well drawn out, but the true grace is in the camera work. Duffy combines the perfect amount of style and flair with a hard and heavy crime action thriller. This movie is entertaining to the last second of the credits. And for a movie to contain lots of action, perfect acting, and wonderful direction is quite rare. The mystery to me was how a movie this great was able to slip past most people, even for one such as myself who tries to keep on top of the movie business rather frequently. ... Duffy was able to get it made with the actors he wanted. ...I love the smaller, less statuesque and more real version of the MacManus brothers. After it was made Boondock Saints was only going to be available in the video stores in VHS. (That's right no box office.) You may ask, then how is it that Boondock Saints has become so popular? I can only guess that it has happened in the rest of the country as it has happened where I am from. I showed it to my friends who in turn showed it to their friends, and within a year the majority of males in my high school (Yes not so popular with the ladies) it went from someone staring blankly at you when you told them about this great movie Boondock Saints, to several people cheering when they noticed you had written "Veritas" across your finger in class. This success can be attributed to all of the aspects of the movie, but my favorite part of the movie is the characters. Il Duce and Rocco in particular are so well shot and acted that they are practically cartoonish in appearance. By cartoonish I mean that by seeing Billy Connolly in his black hat, thick sunglasses, big grey beard and cigar, you feel as if he was meant to be dressed as that and play this part. The DVD while blessed with some awesome extended scenes, including the extension of the brothers' confrontation with Rozengurtle Baumgartener, was most greatly bestowed with the trailer. This trailer is testament to the fact that this movie would have rocked the box office, being one of the best trailers I have ever seen (and of which I watch before the movie every time I see it). I, along with many other people with whom I share a love of this film have been anxiously awaiting word of the sequel. I only hope that their current plans to begin production on fall of 2004 continue on schedule without any problems. However it has been proven with the original, the Boondock Saints will overcome any obstacle in its way.

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There's a storm comin'... and it's ALL SAINTS DAY!
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. ...

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Don't be dazzled by all the stars - no good.
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$!