Boondock
Saints 5/10
If you
had me write this when I first saw this movie I would have been like
“9 out of 10! Awesome movie!” But as someone that is on the wrong
side of 30 I cant even come close to rating Boondock Saints that high. This is
not a terrible movie but after watching so many other films over this
particular one does not live up to the memory hype. Its like when you
think of how cool 80's cartoons were but watch them again and realize
that all the cool shit was in the last minutes when the team formed
Voltron or He-Man showed up. The rest was booty ass.
This
movie is about two Irish Catholic fraternal twins named Connor and
Murphy MacManus played by Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus. One
day in church they hear the story of a woman that was attacked years
ago and no one did anything and get inspired to become bumbling
vigilantes who happen to not get killed doing the shit they do
because of luck or god. You take your pick. They pick god. They
survive assaults and injuries that even Batman would say were
ludicrous. On their trail but not really is Agent Paul Smecker played
by Willem Dafoe. He is gay so gay and cross dresser jokes can be
made.
I
vaguely recall watching the sequel to this and thinking it was not as
good so of course a third one is in the works. I am shocked that
Reedus would agree to do this considering how popular he is from The
Walking Dead now and surely does not need the headache this movie
will dredge up from the past. No matter what race or gender you are
this movie will find a way to attempt to offend it. It doesn't unless
you're sensitive. As an adult it just comes across like some high
school kid with deep seated gay tendencies and hatred for those
feelings wrote this as a cathartic way to get that shit out. If they
made a version of this with just Dafoe's scenes I'd just watch that.
He was fucking nuts.
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