The Boondock Saints [Blu-ray]

Director: Troy Duffy Troy Duffy

Overview

Feeling that they are doing God's will, two Catholic men from Boston set out to kill everyone in this Reservoir Dogs-style vigilante thriller. Brothers Conner and Murphy MacManus (Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus) take to performing their divine duty against the Russian mob. They massacre a bunch of unsuspecting Mafioso in a scene of absurd violence, then they let more blood in a mass killing of porn-shop customers. Instead of getting thrown in jail, they are dubbed "saints" by the Boston Herald, and they are praised by brilliant, tortured, and gay FBI agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe).

Product Details

Release Date:	07/20/2021
UPC:	0850028052112
Original Release:	1999
Rating:	R
Source:	Samuel Goldwyn Films
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:48:00

Special Features

Deleted Scenes; Outtakes; Commentary

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Willem Dafoe	Paul Smecker
Sean Patrick Flanery	Conner MacManus
Norman Reedus	Murphy MacManus
David Della Rocco	Rocco
Billy Connolly	Il Duce
David Ferry	Detektyw Dolly
Brian Mahoney	Detektyw Duffy
Bob Marley	Detektyw Greenly
Richard Fitzpatrick	Actor
William Young	Actor
Robert Pemberton	Actor
Bill Craig	Actor
Dorothy-Marie Jones	Actor
Scott Griffith	Actor
Layton Morrison	Actor
James Binkley	Actor
Matthew Chaffee	Actor
Robert Vernon Eaton	Actor
Kym Kristalie	Actor
Gerard Parkes	Actor
Peter Windrem	Actor
Elizabeth Brown	Actor
Jeffrey R. Smith	Actor
Johnathan Higgins	Actor
Anthony Chrysostom	Actor
Lizz Alexander	Actor
Derek Murchie	Actor
Robert B. Kennedy	Actor
Carlo Rota	Yakavetta
Tom Barnett	Actor
Glenn Marc Silot	Actor
Victor Pedtchenk	Actor
Lauren Piech	Actor
Gina Sorell	Actor
Jeanna Fine	Actor
Sergio Di Zio	Actor
Angelo Tucci	Actor
Jimmy Tingle	The Priest
Dick Callahan	Actor
Morris Santia	Actor
Carmen Distefano	Actor
Darren Marsman	Actor
Christopher Flockton	Actor
Roberta Angelica	Actor
Markus Parilo	Actor
Gary Nicholson	Actor
Joe Pingue	Actor
Kevin Chapman	Actor
Nicholas Pasco	Actor
Ryan Parks	Actor
Pat Riccio	Actor
Chris Brinker	Actor
Don Carmody	Actor
Sean Patrick Brennan	Actor
Ron Jeremy	Vincenzo Lipazzi
Jeff Danna	Composer

Technical Credits

Troy Duffy

Troy Duffy	Director,Screenwriter
Chris Brinker	Producer
Elie Samaha	Producer
Lloyd Segan	Producer
Lora Kennedy	Casting
Ashok Amritraj	Executive Producer
Andrew Stevens	Executive Producer
Michael Kavanagh	Special Effects
Steve Lucescu	Stunts
Robert N. Fried	Producer
Tina Gerussi	Casting
Don Carmody	Executive Producer
Scott Wolf	Sound Editor

Editorial Reviews

A wonderful direct-to-video hit, Boondock Saints delivers a wild and visceral experience in the form of a mythical modern tale of vigilante justice. The film begins unassumingly with two brothers, Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus, hanging out with their buddies at their favorite South Boston bar. When Russian mobsters show up looking for money, the affable pair defend their turf, eventually with extreme prejudice. This sets in motion a series of events that seem more calculated for startling cinematic effect than anything else, and it all pays off brilliantly. Flannery and Reedus, curiously devout Catholic boys, make a most unlikely pair of psychopathic assassins, and their elevation to sainthood by the locals makes sense only within the zany confines of a movie. However, the most gleeful departures from reality are reserved for Willem Dafoe, portraying the tortured FBI genius who is tracking the boys' escalating murder spree. Dafoe plays Agent Paul Smecker as a flamboyant and self-loathing homosexual: He arrives at a crime scene where the lads have slain at least a dozen thugs, slips on his headphones, turns up an opera, and exuberantly re-creates the action as if he had been there. To call the performance over the top would be an understatement. Is Smecker appalled by the atrocities? Oh yes. Does he approve of the vigilantes' actions? Maybe. But one does not get the feeling that rookie director Troy Duffy is trying to make any sort of social statement here, or that anything in the film should be taken seriously. This is pure entertainment for people who aren't afraid of a little blood -- and are also eager to see a toilet bowl employed as a murder weapon.