Boondock Saints II All Saints Day

“Boondock Saints” is one of my favorite cult classic movies, ever. The brothers return in the all newish “Boondock Saints II All Saints Day” to reign terror on crime in Boston. Sean Patrick Flannery (Connor MacManus) and Norman Reedus (Murphy MacManus) return as the protagonist, though perceived as an antagonist to some of the citizens of Boston. The movie’s first couple of scenes include a scene from “Scary Movie 83 million”, or whichever installment that movie is on at this point with some ridiculous over the top sexual joke and a good looking blonde walking on to screen. The brothers are living in their native Ireland with their father (Billy Connolly) when they learn of a murder of a priest using their very own signature kill style. This prompts them to return to Boston for justice. There isn’t really much to say about this movie, there aren’t any cool action scenes until the very end. They look for some organized crime bosses and the killer that is imitating them. At some points this movie feels like it is going to be a forensics style movie instead of an action vendetta style movie. It is quickly discovered that the imitator is probably shorter than the brothers and that there is only one of him instead of the two of them so it is clear the brothers didn’t kill the priest. There is a little bit of cool back story that we find out about their father when he was a child and his partner in crime for and the killing that he started. The movie has lots of terrible dialogue with lots of sexual references to Willam Defoe’s replacement named Eunice Bloom (Julie Benz). There is a little suspense between the original cops that were in on the cover up of the brothers in the first “Boondock Saints” that Eunice might find out they had helped conceal the brothers evasion of the law to Ireland. The movie is boring, I nearly left multiple times. The end is a little redeeming but also frustrating when you learn that there will be a third installment of this now trilogy, here’s to it being better than “All Saints Day”. Good viewing.
JP