Ten years after the original Boondock Saints, the MacManus brothers are living in self inflicted exile in their ancestral home of Ireland. Back in Boston a priest is murdered and the culprit makes it look like the Saints are behind it. This is something up with which they will not put. The brothers return to Boston to wreak their vigilante justice on the man who dared besmirch their name.
This movie was pretty awesome. It had a lot of new action and jokes, as well as revisiting the old jokes in a non annoying way. It was a lot of fun and didn’t destroy the original. It’s sad that that’s what you wish for in the world of sequels but I’ll take it when it happens. It was about the characters and was made not to make money but to make the fans of the original happy.
The jokes were occasionally hokie and the new side kick was a little annoying and I found myself wishing he’d die. Plus as creepy as he was in the original the absence of Willem Defoe was a detraction.
I didn’t have much to say because I saw this awhile ago. It gets a B-. Not as good as the original but worth seeing. You do have to see the original first though. And if you haven’t... why?
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