The Boondock Saints (1999)

	Directed by: Troy Duffy	COUNTRY Canada/USA GENRE Action/Vigilante NORWEGIAN TITLE The Boondock Saints RUNNING TIME 108 minutes
	Produced by: Chris Brinker Rob Fried Elie Samaha Lloyd Segan
	Written by: Troy Duffy

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Paul Smecker	Willem Dafoe
Connor MacManus	Sean Patrick Flanery
Murphy MacManus	Norman Reedus
Roc/Funny Man	David Della Rocco	½
Il Duce	Billy Connolly	-

Review

The Boondock Saints plays like the bastard offspring of Quentin Tarantino and Luc Besson. It's an overdone, baroque take on what made Pulp Fiction and Léon great, reduced to pretentious pastiche with subpar craftsmanship by first-timer Troy Duffy. Though the film does boast a stylish Willem Dafoe performance, in the vein of Gary Oldman's Stansfield, the incessant scenes of slow-mo violence feel strangely uninspired and lack any true narrative or thematic gravitas. Like the character of Funny Man (David Della Rocco), they appear to exist solely in order to strut, swank and show off.