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The Boondock Saints (2000)

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Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 19

A juvenile, ugly movie that represents the worst tendencies of directors channeling Tarantino.

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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

R, 1 hr. 50 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy

Troy Duffy

May 21, 2002

Indican

Cast

All Critics (23) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (20) | 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.

Variety
Top Critic IconTop Critic

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.

July 26, 2011 Full Review Source: AV Club | Comment
AV Club

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.

July 26, 2011 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

An embarrassing waste of time, and nothing even resembling the guiltiest of guilty pleasures...

August 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comments (15)
Cinema Crazed

[A] dim-witted, aesthetically clunky Tarantino clone.

October 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comments (3)
Lessons of Darkness

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]

March 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comments (13)

Train wreck!

October 13, 2007 Comment
ColeSmithey.com

While I don't think the flick really has much of a brain in its head ... it sure isn't boring.

June 10, 2006 Full Review Source: DVD Clinic | Comment
DVD Clinic

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.

May 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com | Comment
Bullz-Eye.com

It taps into everyone's secret desire for vigilantism.

May 25, 2006 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comments (8)
7M Pictures

A high-octane, super-bloody, colorfully vulgar and visually stunning gangster movie.

May 22, 2006 Full Review Source: Buzzine Magazine | Comment
Buzzine Magazine

Definitely an exercise in style over substance.

September 27, 2005 Full Review Source: FulvueDrive-in.com | Comment
FulvueDrive-in.com

It is, by turns, hilariously awful and just plain unhilariously awful, full of its own nonexistent momentousness, an unintentional parody of hardboiled gangster flicks.

November 12, 2004 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | Comments (5)
Flick Filosopher

Visualmente interessante, o filme se corrompe ao fazer apologia da "justiça com as próprias mãos". Ainda assim, a atuação de Dafoe merece ser conferida.

February 21, 2004 Comment
Cinema em Cena

It does the job, but doesn't do a very good job of it.

October 29, 2003 Comment
Juicy Cerebellum
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Audience Reviews for The Boondock Saints

One of the most overrated movies of all time. Horribly shot that so desperately wants to have a Tarantino feel without the wit and entertainment. Acting = horrible. Action? Non-existent. Cinematography was ugly as hell. Screenplay was horrendous.

October 2, 2011
Albert Kim

Super Reviewer

Think back to the early 1990s. During this time, there was a man by the name of Quentin Tarantino who made to crime films that changed everything in terms of cinema. Those films were Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Due to the success of those films, it is bound that someone will either make a rip-off, tribute, or

October 22, 2011
Zach Brehany

Super Reviewer

    1. Rocco: Is it dead?
    – Submitted by Alex M (18 days ago)
    1. Conner MacManus: [with Murphy as they point two guns at a gangster on his knees] And Shepherds we shall be, for thee my lord, for thee. Power hath descended forth from they hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out they command. So we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In nomine Patri, et fili... et spiritu scanti. [shoot the gangster in the back of the head]
    – Submitted by David O (2 months ago)
    1. Paul Smecker: There was a firefight!
    – Submitted by I Am The Vast UNIVERSE I (4 months ago)
    1. Rocco: Well, um, I'll have a Coke, then.
    – Submitted by Jacob J (5 months ago)
    1. Paul Smecker: Yeah, well, I'm an expert in... nameology!
    – Submitted by Ryan P (7 months ago)

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