Review of The Boondock Saints (1999) by Mustisthecat — 21 Aug 2011

I`m a little two-row about this one. For starters, the story is a bit shallow. Yes it has a twist, but it doesn`t stop being a pretext for some killing or funny killing. What totally saves it is the acting.

All of them : W. Dafoe, S.Flanery, N. Reedus and even D. Rocco took their job seriously and executed wonderfully. All of them enrich the story ten fold. Especially W. Dafoe`s performance. This movie never gets boring, this movie surprises the viewer every minute.

The characters get well established, are easy to know, like and relate to. When watchng "The Boondock Saints" I felt as I was killin the baddies myself. Few scenes made me laugh a lot, as the Saints are quite the company of very different people on multiple levels.

All of this acompanied by a detective who is starting to have doubts about his job. To be honest I took this film more as comedy than drama or anything serious. It gets brutal at times, but the funny stuff enters it the same moments.

Light, funny, especially worth seeing for the characters development part.