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Published : 8 months, 1 week ago (Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:35:12 PDT)
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So we finally got around to watching The Boondock Saints just right this very minute, and I must say I was impressed. Now, we of course had been recommended the film by friends both venerable and wise, yet were under the impression that the movie was rather dark and psychologically disturbing. Being as we are both somewhat fragile, this caused us to delay our enjoyment.
To those who've not seen it, briefly it is this:
Two young men, brothers, good Irish Catholic boys both, find themselves embroiled in a bar fight (stretches the limits of credulity, I know - an Irish bar fight? Fah!) wherein the losers, who happen to be Russian Mafia, return to kill our wee lads. Violence ensues. Mafiosos are killed, and our wee lads turn themselves in.
They are released as this was clearly self-defense. During a night spent voluntarily in jail to avoid the press, the two awake as though filled with the Holy host. It's clear, Destroy the evil so that the good may flourish. Now they have a mission.
Some fine performances all around, Sean Patrick Flanery is always a joy, and his cohort Norman Reedus (think Orlando Bloom, but less effeminate) do wonderful jobs, very enjoyable. And Willem Defoe is wonderfully creepy as the FBI agent trying to track them down. Finally, Billy Connolly - God bless his wee bum, plays The Duke, the mad-dog hitman released from prison after 25 years just in time to find gainful employment in his chosen field once again.
Granted, this movie glorifies and glamourizes Vigilantism to an obscene degree, much more so than the Punisher (and more enjoyably at that), but as long as you're a relatively stable personality, you should not have any problems.
Oooooh! And a quick search of IMDB shows a sequel is currently filming! The Boondock Saints: All Saints Day |
