Directed by: Troy
Duffy
Genre: Action,
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Runtime: 10 minutes
Release year: 2009
Studio: Apparition LLC
I found the original Boondock Saints
film to be highly overrated and unoriginal, but tolerated it as mindless
entertainment. A sequel was of lesser quality, making it even more difficult to
appreciate the simple enjoyment of the first film. All of the faults from the
original return in great quantities, and the movie feels stuck in the 1990s.
Filmmaker Troy Duffy seems stuck on this one-hit-wonder of his, essentially
giving excessive amounts of senseless violence and off-color humor in hopes of
making some of the same happy accidents as the first film. The director’s cut
is significantly longer and more coherent. The faults remain the same, but the
admirable qualities shine brighter in this well-paced cut.
At the beginning
of this sequel the MacManus brothers (Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flannery)
are living in hiding with their criminal father Il Duce (Billy Connolly) in Ireland Boston
The numbers are
so stacked against the criminals that you would think that Duffy might have
thrown an obstacle or two in the way, but the movie quickly becomes more about
the brutal gunplay than anything else. Style overwhelms substance so much that
the action scenes are often ripe with visual errors. The brother swing into a
room shooting guns, attached to rope, much like the first film. In the first
film they are tangled in the rope and forced to dispatch the bad guys by
hanging upside down, but in the second film the rope simply disappears and they
are magically no longer attached as they ceaselessly fire their weapons with
both hands. Logic is gone, but at least the actors look cool while they shoot
in slow motion.
The Blu-ray
release of the director’s cut also includes a disc with the theatrical version,
for the purists. The Blu-ray exclusive special features highlight what is most
important in the film with a featurette on the weapons in the film. There is
also a feature on secrets from the set with cast confessions, and a featurette
on the Comic-Con appearance. Features that are also on the DVD release include
deleted scenes, a filmmaker and cast commentary, and a behind-the-scenes
featurette.
Entertainment Value:
8/10
Quality of
Filmmaking: 6/10
Historical
Significance: 4/10
Disc Features: 7.5/10
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