📽 The Boondock Saints (1999) (Action/Crime/Thriller) |R. 1h 48m | 'Brothers. Killers. Saints. & shepherds, we shall be for thee, my Lord.
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus | Director: Troy Duffy | Writer: Troy Duffy
📽 Plot: Two Irish Catholic brothers become vigilantes and wipe out Boston's criminal underworld in the name of God.
'Brothers. Killers. Saints. And shepherds, we shall be for thee, my Lord. Thou shalt not kill. It's the one commandment they cannot keep. Thy Kingdom Come. Thy Will Be Done. Before The MacManus Brothers Get To Heaven, They're Gonna Raise A Little Hell.
The MacManus Brothers aren't angels, they're just sent from heaven to make life a hell for all sinners. They're on a Mission From God.
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner (Flanery) and Murphy (Reedus) are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker (Dafoe), an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on their blood-soaked trail.
After Irish-American brothers Connor McManus (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy MacManus (Norman Reedus) cheat death with the Russian mob a day after St. Patrick's Day, the two decide to voluntarily stay overnight at a police station, where they receive what appears to be a message from God to rid Boston of all evil. Connor and Murphy, with the aid of their friend Rocco (David Della Rocco), set out on numerous campaigns to rid Boston of lowlifes and mafiosos, leaving behind a path of destruction. Meanwhile, F.B.I. Agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe) is tasked with investigating the aftermath of each mission conducted by the MacManus brothers and Rocco. The more pieces Smecker fits into the puzzle, the more he asks himself: Should he continue his job and possibly arrest the trio, or join them in their mission to destroy evil?
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I've always enjoyed non-linear storytelling. Several people seem to have picked up on this aspect of the movie and thus dubbed it similar to Pulp Fiction (though no one mentions Reservoir Dogs) when this movie takes non-linear storytelling to a level beyond where Quentin Tarantino was ever able to go.
Now, certainly Memento came along afterward and transformed the entire art of non-linear storytelling. However, Memento uses it to keep the movie watcher guessing until the very end, whereas Boondock Saints puts the pieces on the table, letting you try to put them together, but then will continue handing you pieces until the picture becomes clearer.
Clearly the movie is designed to be over-the-top, both from Willem Dafoe's character to the action sequences themselves. Willem Dafoe makes this movie for me. The plot, which centers on religiously-inspired vigilante justice, has an air of being somewhat cliched, although I would be hard-pressed to name another movie that handles it in this matter.
I still fail to see how others consider this movie vacuous and without meaning when its message about the pitfalls of our current legal system and the need for something that transcends it is quite clear. I thought the ending, in which various people are interviewed about their opinion of the "Saints" and how for some vigilante justice was an incredibly sensitive issue, made this point very clear.
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