The Boondock Saints
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community.
4 October 1962, London, Ontario, Canada
16 April 1951, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
9 April 1955, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
16 October 1924, Dublin, Ireland
6 January 1969, Hollywood, Florida, USA
March 15, 2009
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]
June 10, 2006
While I don't think the flick really has much of a brain in its head ... it sure isn't boring.
March 07, 2013
Willem 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.
May 25, 2006
It taps into everyone's secret desire for vigilantism.
August 17, 2010
An embarrassing waste of time, and nothing even resembling the guiltiest of guilty pleasures...
May 09, 2008
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.
October 23, 2009
[A] dim-witted, aesthetically clunky Tarantino clone.
July 26, 2011
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.
October 13, 2007
Train wreck!
September 27, 2005
Definitely an exercise in style over substance.
July 26, 2011
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.
May 27, 2006
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.
