[...] to Hollywood Reporter, Boondock Saints 2 started filming in late October.  As much as I hated the original, writer/director Troy Duffy deserves props for having the tenacity to help this project (which [...]

First, learn to spell, use capitalization and punctuation correctly; people will take you more seriously. Second, everyone, including BRIAN is entitled to their opinion. The point of writing a review on this site is to help people decide whether or not to see a movie. If you would like YOUR opinion to count, that makes you a critic as well, and you are welcome to throw up a blog somewhere expressing that opinion for all to read.

Only about 20% of movie reviewers thought this was any good, so that has to tell you something. Over at IMDB.com it rates 7.7 out of 10, which is pretty good, but the bulk of the positive ratings come from under-18 year olds, so that’s all I need to know about that.

Best regards,

Vic

i watched that scene like 20 times. It was… brilliant. The scene where they pray to their friend and the killer dude (ya i dont remember names:P) is about to kill them… it was just like wow.

so while being cheesy, it was very cool. i loved their bad acting although i wish the porno dude could have been hotter. lol. kinda gross actually.

i loved their accents.

Can’t wait for number 2.

It seems to me this one falls under the “love it or hate it” rule, and that type of film always elicits strong emotions on both sides.

I think we’ve had enough comments on this review. :confused:

Vic

Which organized crime unit controlled the area of South Boston depicted was never really established; although I would imagine the Italians had more of a foothold, considering their tenure there, also the line “The Russians are buying up buildings all over” and the russians being new to american organized crime imply that they are only starting out in the area. It simply happened that the Russians came into the bar and were acting like total jerks.

I wouldn’t imagine these boys to have ever been “bullied” and I doubt it was the sermon that got them going since the remark “I do believe the monsignor has finally got the point.” shows they believed the indifference of good men was a problem for a while. And since they awoke suddenly at the same time in jail with their eyes fixed on the ceiling and water dripping on both of their foreheads exclaiming “destroy all that which is evil” “so that which is good may flourish” probably was the “call to action.”

Smecker knows that the killings were in self defense before he met with the twins, as he had an unseen conversation where he told bartender that.

It takes Agent Smecker four murder scenes to figure out who it is, and is very visibly upset by his failing in the first three, and may never have found out exactly who it was had he not tripped in the bushes. Secondly, he does nothing to “mount a case” against the saints.

The assassin was not hired by the Russian Mob, but the Italian Mafia. It would be difficult for the Russian Mob to know what was happening seeing as they never know who is shooting their syndicate bosses and underbosses.

A murder investigation did not lead the cops and FBI to a strip club, a murder did. They only started investigating that murder after they went to the club.

I very much doubt that the Nine guns used in the shootout where only small injuries occured fired “hundreds” of bullets as they were all handguns, some six shooters.

I must also add that some of you who picked apart this man’s review also did not accurately represent the movie, and they would do well not to express their opinions in such a matter. Particularly Todd. You must have also left the room when the Italian Mafia Don was with the bathroom attendent. That was definitly NOT his father seeing as they have different last names, and even discuss Papa Joe’s father.

I did not watch the movie with your review in front of me and pick it apart, I am just going off of what I remember offhand. I am not here to change your mind about this movie. I respect your opinion, but I must say that if you intend to be fair in your assessment of a movie you should not misrepresent the facts of the movie. If you do not remember the movie well enough to write a decent synopsis, then don’t, just write your opinion. If it becomes necessary to cite certain parts of the movie for your review, then make sure you get them correct.

Brodie

I respect that u dont like the movie brian, I also respect ur reasons why but In all honesty it appears you did not really watch the movie. Even you said yourself that you went in expecting it to suck because of what you saw in Overnight, so you picked it apart from beginning to end, in doing so you seemed to have missed the overall point of the movie and also missed so vital parts of the movie that help tie the movie together. Watch it again only this time with the positive reviews in mind and you may actually enjoy it. If the movie was so bad they would not be making All Saints Day (the second one)and releasing it in theatres despite the first ones release straight to film. They also got alot bigger budget this time around. It must have done very well despite never being released in theatres for all this to happen.
Go to http://theboondocksaints.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=4352&st=0 if you want to know more about it and do me a favor rewatch the movie without preconceived notions and u may enjoy it.

Todd,

As I have already said here, I don’t expect everyone to agree with me, but I fail to see how such a disrespectful, condescending comment is warranted just because I liked the movie less than you did.

Brian

JD,

You and I are apparently among the very few who didn’t enjoy this movie tremendously. Different strokes for different folks, I guess…

I remember the scene you were talking about, and that’s a classic bad movie cliché. If I had set out to list all the examples in this movie, I might still be writing the review.

Your idea for BS: II is a good one, but are you sure it’s a good idea to attempt to inject logic into a movie like that?

Brian

After suffering through this piece of cinematic excrement barely an hour ago, it’s a relief to find a review that echoes every thought I had.

In terms of bad-movie cliches, though, you missed the capper, the sine qua non of the genre: the bad guys who imprison the good guys, kill the minor character (i.e. not one of the leads) among them, and then, instead of killing the other two while they’re at it, decide to go off and do something else so that the heroes have a chance to escape and fight back.

Meanwhile, for those fans of the movie, whoever you may be, here’s a suggestion for Boondock Saints II: since the “saints” are devout Roman Catholics who think they have a divine commission to kill “evildoers,” why not have the entire sequel be them waging their war against abortionists? Killing doctors and receptionists, blowing up clinics, hey, even tracking down and executing “baby-killing” women who already used the clinic’s services? Why should the Mafia be the only target of their “Godly” wrath, when the Church has, after all, condemned abortion a lot more than they ever condemned organized crime?

This is one of the best movies I have ever seen in my entire life. This is the kind of movie that you have to watch at least 3 times to catch all of the little things and completley understand what’s going on, but everytime that I watch it I love it more. It’s fantastic!

David,

I don’t expect everyone to agree with me, but I still respect other people’s opinions. It’s unfortunate that some people can’t extend me the same courtesy.

Brian

Many of your comments lead me to believe you either didn’t, or you just did not understand the direction this movie took.

They believe they have been chosen by God to eliminate evil on earth. They do not begin this quest because they can make a better living by doing so, as you suggest. Plus they don’t live in an area mostly controlled by the Russian mob…the mob has just entered the neighborhood.

Dafoe’s treating local cops like crap is comic relief. The massive shoot-out with no deaths as well as the falling into the room can, in my opinion, stem from the fact that these brothers have been chosen by God to do this task…the movie even points out the absurdity of them landing in the middle of the Russian room…an event so unlikely it must be deemed miraculous.

Also, forgive me if I’m mistaken, the only similarity between this movie and Natural Born Killers is that they both focus on murderers who have captured the public’s…well, hearts I guess. However, the Saints are not randomly killing, as they did in NBK, they are enforcing God’s will, at least in their own minds.

It seems to me you have taken a very shallow perspective and are most likely bringing an atheist’s viewpoint to the movie. You are seeing these men as simple killers, when, at least in their minds, they are not killers, but saints.