A low-budget Tarantino knockoff,
The Boondock Saints (2000) flopped miserably in theaters but has since won a cult following on video—sustained, no doubt, by the documentary
Overnight (2003), which chronicled the showbiz rise and fall of
Saints mastermind Troy Duffy. After nine years, Duffy has coughed up a sequel, and like the first movie it's energetic, proudly juvenile, and reverently derivative. Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery return as the two Irish immigrant brothers who launched a wave of Catholic-themed vigilante justice in South Boston in the first movie; now living quietly in Ireland, they come out of hiding to avenge the murder of a priest back in the States. Part of the Saints' M.O. is to pray over the baddies they execute, and Duffy follows a similar impulse, running through the macho cliches as if they were a catechism. With Billy Connolly, Clifton Collins Jr., Julie Benz, and Peter Fonda. R, 118 min.
By
J.R. Jones
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