The Boondock Saints (1999)
Posted By Action Flick Chick on July 23, 2009
Have you ever wondered what the Green Goblin would look like as a woman? Nope, me neither, but The Boondock Saints just throws it in your face like a monkey flinging poo at you. You’re just making cute noises at the monkey and then you’ve got poop in your face. You’re just watching a movie, then you’ve got Willem Dafoe in drag kissing a man! I mean really kissing him. He is all up in there – tongue and all. It’s horrific and hilarious, and extremely shocking.
The plot of this flick is that the MacManus twins, played by Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus, receive a message from God while spending the night in the slammer. Hallelujah! That message consisted of go out and kill all the baddies in Boston. Hmmm, okay. So, they do. They mess some people up all the while reciting the family prayer.
The Boondock Saints was very intriguing. It wasn’t the normal action movie. It had action, but it was either in slow motion or being told as a story in reverse order. You see the 10 dead guys with their brains on the wall before you see how those brains got there. I enjoyed this film. Side note- I was a little confused by Ron Jeremy? He’s playing a role where he is wearing clothes and he’s not doing everyone in the room. I don’t understand. This could have been a very different movie. The Boondock Saints was interesting and enjoyable even without the nudity. It also wins the award for the most F bombs in a movie, although technically it may not be the most, but it has a metric butt-ton.
Time until initial action starts: ~ 5 minutes
Time until real action starts: ~ 20 minutes
Big Bad Baddies: All Mob members or the MacManus twins, depending on if you think it’s good or bad that the MacManus twins are killing other baddies.
Best Line: “Why don’t you make like a tree, and get the f*** out of here.”
Best Kill: The MacManus brothers and Funny Man Rocco are sitting at the kitchen table. Rocco is freaking out and banging his hands on the table when he accidentally sets off a gun, and the next thing you see is a huge splat on the wall. It was the FREAKIN’ CAT. It happened so fast you don’t realize what is splattering on the wall. Then when you replay it, you see a little kitty cat sitting on the table all nice and sweet and then it gets splattered on the wall. Kitty soup anyone?
Best Explosion: Sadly no explosion. A hell of a lot of kills, though.
Action Rating: 3 Willem Dafoes in drag, out of 5.
Illustration by Alex Langley. Rocket Llama World Headquarters.
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Hold on now… BDS deserve an in-depth study considering the quality of the screenwriting and the spectacular result despite the creator’s vile arrogance and going from the Hollywood “it-guy” to complete pariah within a matter of months. Troy Duffy (or “Weird Troy” as my favorite LA bartender likes to call him to his face), deserves nothing but scorn and contempt as a human being as seen in the documentary made about him bringing the Boondock Saints to the most successful direct-to-DVD titles of the 90’s, “Overnight” (yep that’s the title of the doc). He SHOULD burn for being one of the worst neophyte asses in Hollywood history, yet I so want to see his “BDS II: All Saint’s Day” which he is somehow following through on after all these years. Bring it Troy. If you can’t do it, BURN you poor excuse for a Red Sox fan.
Sincerely,
Coop Cooper, The Small Town Critic
I saw this one a few years back, the whole Defoe thing was priceless! The film was cool in that it didn’t give a rat’s ass if you liked it or not – it was kinda like the director said, screw you!
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This is one of the best movies around .. worth mentioning in the same breath as smokin aces and lucky number slevin .. witty, funny, and packed full of awesome, killtacular action! try and stop me from getting veritas or aequitas tattooed on my trigger finger!
-Otacon
bds2 relly let me down guys,and im a huge fan.it really was just a carbon copy of the first one with terrable action,and a real girl in as the fbi investigator other than that they just made a bunch out of place references about the first movie.WAY TO RUN IT INTO THE GROUND HOLLYWOOD THANKS ALOT
I didn’t see The Boondock Saints until about 5 years after it came out. It was one of those movie that you would say “Who s responsible for this and why didn’t I hear about this sooner?” I was blown away by the characters is this movie. IMHO one of Willem Defoe’s best roles. He was a absolute riot.