why this film is not good
he Boondock saints is by far one of the most cynical films I have ever seen, it's a copy and paste and sloppy mish mash imitation of Tarantino, with no overall theme, it's visually uninspired and follows no visual language. The dialog tries really hard to be funny and entertaining and just is over assuming of just how clever it is, I mean one of the most memorable parts is someone reciting a joke, that's like taking a funny youtube video and inserting it into your movie and not making any mention or commentary or anything out of it, the funny man is not funny, he just runs around yelling all wide eyed.
The only person who really does anything for the movie is Willem Dafoe, who tricks people into thinking this movie is worth anything because he's a talented actor who could act in any movie and elevate it with his on screen presence and ability. The writing of this character isn't what makes us like him, it's Willem Dafoe. But the main actors are alright but mainly shapeless, they say shit that's just a voicebox for Troy Duffy to say the same perspective over and over again, they hold no contrast, they don't disagree, conflict in this movie only shows up in contrived waves like Rocco getting shot, and then they play the horrible library music soundtrack, the most generic irish music and the most horrible 2 cent and royalty free soundtrack.
He tries to tie it off with the silly and obvious question of Is It Okay To Kill Bad People? As if he were illustrating a story that covers the subject matter, when all the movie does is celebrate and accentuate violence and brutality and shows you can wear neat little blue jeans and a peacoat while doing it.
There is nothing here, if this movie set out to be a commentary on crime and brutality, it failed. And let's talk about the action, it's unimaginative at best, it's all basic and elementary, visually and from the mechanics going on, most of the shootouts are just one person standing/spinning in one part of the room, murdering people in another part of the room, that's fine if you're going for realism, but if you have akimbo guns, slow motion, and you're going for the john woo aesthetic, and all you can pull out is 3 guys standing in a room guns drawn firing a bunch at a another group of guys, and that's your sequence, well I wouldn't call it imaginative, all the great directors make action scenes in their own shape and beauty, even if they all don't follow the same logic and aesthetics, but The Boondock Saints is just boring.
Now I ran into all of this before I even seen Overnight, and I'm sure anyone who's seen it will tell you how synonymous the director's doucheyness is with this film, and whatever, I agree the documentary is edited and what not, but those are such tidbits and significant beacons of his personality, his attitude, his sensibilities, that it's really no wonder that Boondock Saints is as terrible as it is, it came from this man, this egotistical, delusional, and pseudo-discerning psychopath.
it'd be one thing if the fans admitted its a fun dumb action film in the style of bad boys or that ilk. but they refuse! anyone who doesnt like it is a hater and just cant understand the true genius of this movie