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List Price: $26.98 Features • Collector's Edition • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Special Edition • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2000 DVD Release : 23 May, 2006 |
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The Boondock Saints - Unrated (Two-Disc Special Edition) description Charismatic young stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus play two Irish brothers, Connor and Murphy, who believe themselves ordained by God to rid the world of evil men. Their first killing is in self-defense; but after that, they start killing with devotion, gunning down a summit of the Russian mafia. Willem Dafoe plays a gay FBI agent (he liste ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | "Feel Good" vigilante film derivitive and stylized, but a lot of fun |
| "The Boondock Saints" is probably the first violent, stylized, kill-em-all film that I would describe as a "feel good" movie. That this film has achieved such cult status is a combination of the film's stylized direction and dialogue, and the idea of a couple of regular guys enforcing their brand of justice on all these bad guys. Let's face it. If you had the opportunity and the lack of inhibitions, wouldn't you do what these guys do?
The film has been panned by many top critics for it's highly derivitive style. True, the bible passage shouting before you kill a guy has been done by Tarantino. True also is that the idea of the detective listening to opera while investigating seems to borrow a bit from John Woo (as well as some of the action scenes), but the fun here is that Troy Duffy and co don't take any of it seriously. The brothers are a fun duo. But it's Willem Dafoe who steals the show. Willem Dafoe plays cross dressing gay FBI agent Paul Smecker, who is probably the most original character Duffy has crafted for the film. He has the best lines. Dafoe plays the character so straight (and I use the term loosely) that he's made this character. He plays Smecker as very proficient, but with a lot of quirks. Since Tarantino, there's been a lot a lot of so called derivative films that critics have had a lot of disdain for. Boondock Saints is one of those films. While the dialogue and style doesn't rise to Tarantino levels, it's still good in its own right. And it's not a blatant rip off, though it'd be tough to say those films didn't inspire how this picture is shot. There are some non linear sequences, but they have their own unique flare. Duffy shows us a scene and uses Smecker to go back and see what happened. Boondock Saints is a fun film. There's reasons to see how it has reached cult status. While it's not one of the best films ever made, it does leave you with a certain feeling. Our heroes are likeable and we're cheering them on throughout the film. In some ways, it has the flare of a crazed underground vigilante superhero film, complete with larger than life characters. And yes, I would go so far to say it is a "feel good" movie. |
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