The Boondock Saints (2000)
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 20
A juvenile, ugly movie that represents the worst tendencies of directors channeling Tarantino.
Average Rating: N/A
Critic Reviews: 1
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 1
A juvenile, ugly movie that represents the worst tendencies of directors channeling Tarantino.
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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. Brothers Conner and Murphy MacManus (Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus) take to performing their divine duty against the Russian mob. They massacre a bunch of unsuspecting Mafioso in a scene of absurd violence, then they let more blood in a mass killing of porn-shop customers. Instead of getting thrown in jail, they are dubbed "saints" by the Boston
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Willem Dafoe
Paul Smecker -
Sean Patrick Flanery
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Norman Reedus
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Billy Connolly
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David Ferry
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Brian Mahoney
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Bob Marley
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Carlo Rota
Yakavetta -
Jimmy Tingle
The Priest -
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Ron Jeremy
Vincenzo Lipazzi -
David Della Rocco
Rocco -
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All Critics (25) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (21) | DVD (28)
More interested in finding fresh ways to stage execution scenes than in finding meaning behind the human urge for self-appointed righting of wrongs, pic is stuffed with effects that have no lasting impact.
Top CriticWillem Dafoe's portrayal of the conflicted homosexual FBI agent is overacted to such an extent that it is hilarious, amazing and entertaining. His is an unforgettable character.
Satire or self-parody would be vastly preferable to the film's unironic endorsement of outlaw justice, but you'd be hard pressed to find anything resembling irony or subversiveness in this exercise in lovingly rendered ultra-violence.
Duffy's models are clearly snarky, ultraviolent Tarantino-esque crime pictures, but this movie's cleverness is never quite on a par with its bloodlust.
An embarrassing waste of time, and nothing even resembling the guiltiest of guilty pleasures...
[A] dim-witted, aesthetically clunky Tarantino clone.
It's one thing to make a film that's violent and profane; it's another to make one that's a moral black hole, and to do it because black looks cool. [Blu-ray]
Train wreck!
While I don't think the flick really has much of a brain in its head ... it sure isn't boring.
If you can't sit back and enjoy an entertaining popcorn flick like The Boondock Saints, then you'll probably never understand the difference between the movies and real life.
It taps into everyone's secret desire for vigilantism.
A high-octane, super-bloody, colorfully vulgar and visually stunning gangster movie.
Definitely an exercise in style over substance.
It is, by turns, hilariously awful and just plain unhilariously awful, full of its own nonexistent momentousness, an unintentional parody of hardboiled gangster flicks.
Visualmente interessante, o filme se corrompe ao fazer apologia da "justiça com as próprias mãos". Ainda assim, a atuação de Dafoe merece ser conferida.
Audience Reviews for The Boondock Saints
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- Conner MacManus: And Shepherds we shall be For thee, my Lord, for thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand Our feet may swiftly carry out Thy commands. So we shall flow a river forth to Thee And teeming with souls shall it ever be. In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti.
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- Conner MacManus: Isn't that right Rambo?
- Murphy MacManus: Fine, get you're stupid fucking rope.
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- Conner MacManus: I can't believe that happened!
- Rocco: Is it dead?
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- Murphy MacManus: We're like 711, we ain't always doing business... But we're always open.
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- Murphy MacManus: You'd probably have better luck with beer.
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- Paul Smecker: Now, you Irish cops are perking up. That's two sound theories in one day, neither of which deal with abnormally sized men. Kind of makes me feel like Riverdancing.
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Foreign Titles
- Der blutige Pfad Gottes (DE)
DIRECTED BY: Troy Duffy
SUMMARY: Encouraged by the public's praise, two Catholic brothers, Conner and Murphy MacManus bring a bloody brand of vigilante justice against Boston's Russian mafia and crime lord Yakavetta.
MY THOUGHTS: I liked it, thought it had some good action. Not as funny as I thought it would be. But a good movie none the less. Really liked the 'funny man'. He made me laugh a few times. But Willem Defoe really shocked me in this film. He was great and really stands out in this movie.. You will see why or know why if you have seen this or are going to see this. Anyways, a good time kind of movie with great action, a bit funny, and very much entertaining... See it if you haven't.