The Boondock Saints [Blu-ray] | ![The Boondock Saints [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yRQGldJiL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Troy Duffy
Actors: Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, Billy Connolly
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  704 reviews
Sales Rank: 2397
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 024543538028
UPC: 024543538028
EAN: 0024543538028
ASIN: B001AQT130
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: February 10, 2009
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Product Description
After two Irish brothers in South Boston accidentally kill members of the mafia and are treated like heroes, they decide they have been called upon by
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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 listens to opera while examining crime scenes) who knows what the boys are doing but feels that their vigilante tactics are necessary. There's not much plot to The Boondock Saints--it's mostly a series of violent scenes in which the boys are partially ingenious and partially lucky. The movie seems to want to provoke debate about vigilantism, but the scenario is too implausible to stir any real controversy. The peculiar mix of earnestness and machismo will not appeal to everyone, but it's certainly unique and may acquire a cult following. --Bret Fetzer
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 Satisfying in an un-PC kind of way September 3, 2010
L.T. (Sydney, NSW Australia)
If you watch movies to escape, this is a great movie! could easily stand against anything Quintin Tarantino dish out...One can easily see why this is a a cult hit!
Great movie August 31, 2010
Carolyn R. Fortney
love the Boomdock saints, couldn wait until I recevied it.
I saw it on Amazon.com and saw the deals for that movie.
I received the movie on time and enjoyed watching it.
thank you for your promptness
a happy customer
 To everyone who made this movie into a cult hit, I hate you, I hate you. I hate you. August 10, 2010
Tim Lieder (New York, NY)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
And I hope you die.
That said, I don't know if I would have hated this movie quite so much if I didn't hear so many people praising it to the hills for so many years. Even in light of the director being a jerk and BS2 being so bad, I have heard that this is the most awesome Tarantino imitator movie ever. To be this cool, you have to watch Tarantino.
Instead, I got a superhero movie with two brogue spouting actors playing a couple of invincible crazed killers who mow down armies of mafia types. It starts with the Russians and then goes on to the Italians. Not sure why the Irish mobsters are allowed to live. Maybe there aren't any Irish mobsters. All the Irish stuff is straight out of the Lucky Charms commercials. The mobsters rarely get their accents down. The conceit of having Willem Dafoe reenact the crime scene after the fact in order to show the crime scene works at first but then gets repeated so often that you have to realize that it's a one trick pony directing this thing.
And there really is no reason for Dafoe to go in drag at the end beyond the homophobia of a director who thinks taht dudes in dresses is hilarious.
The story is idiotic and the dialogue is BS faith stuff. And here's where the movie really grates on my nerves. You know how Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) says that the Bible verse he's been quoting was something that he just thought was some cold sh-- to say before popping a cap in some guy's a--? Well that scene works because it is at the center of this conflicted character who realizes that he has to completely reevaluate his life and that he's had the tools to repentence all along and he's been misusing them. In this movie, the prayers and the Bible quotes are simply ways for the screenwriter to fill up space when he runs out of variations on swear words.
Of course, I doubt anyone thinks that the guns and faith thing is serious. But still, this movie makes Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind No. 1) seem like Paradise Lost in comarison (full disclosure: I edited an anthology of Bible horror stories called She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror because I have the same issues) and it's insulting to anyone that might take their religion seriously.
Basically, this movie is a revenge fantasy for white suburban teenagers who are scared of the inner city and want to think of themselves as tough because their pasty white ancestors were probably from Ireland (shake a family tree and an Irish woman falls out). It's about two boring idiots who kill a bunch of evil idiots and can't die or get hurt. It's very boring and very insulting and a waste of two hours.
 Gotta be honest here... August 4, 2010
William M. Cortner V
If this movie were a food, it would be either cotton candy or a snow cone. Both are enjoyable while they last, but neither have any value, substance, or really do anything. This movie is the same way.
To its credit, it achieves the baseline for any movie, which is that it makes the audience forget about their lives for a bit and become engrossed in an alternate realm. Unfortunately, it does little beyond this.
Few elements of the plot are necessary. Dafoe in drag, for instance. Not needed, and even immediately after seeing the scene I was wondering why and how it happened. This is not a good sign.
After thinking about the movie, I realized that all it had going for it was stylized violence. It had little semblance of plot, zero character development (unless an increasing kill count is a development), and worthless dialog. All in all, pret'ny worthless.
If you really liked the slick-ness of this movie, but want to watch something that is, frankly, better, watch a Guy Ritchie film (except RocknRolla). I recommend Snatch or Sherlock Holmes.
Good, funny, and not for kids. July 24, 2010
Luis A. Avila
Boondock Saints about two people who loves to enjoy life to the fullest. Then, though a dream they have found there calling in life! Taking care of the bad guys. Basicly, this moive have lots of hummer (some of them dark), shooting them up take notes later. Story really good, don't really want to give out too many hints! But man this moive really cought my eye when I first saw this movie!
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