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Movie – Boondock Saints II

Posted by HeroinOn February - 26 - 2010
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Remember Boondock Saints from 1999? Remember how awesome the movie was? Do you recall the strong in faith saints blasting gangsters and scum in a titiebar? If you don’t, go watch that movie first before seeing Boondock Saints II. Or watch Boondock Saints II and be amazed how much better the first movies is.Yes, thats right Boondock Saints II is crap, it is utterly unwatchable.

When i heard that a sequel was coming for the original Boondock saints I was quite happy. The first movie was a bit like Crank, lots of action, and still a decent, yet unbelievable, plot. The Boondock saints are two Irish guys who, through some vision, decide to kill gangsters. Most people call them saints because of this, and even the NYPD helps them out. In the end they execute some leader gangster in court. Basically a really good ending.

The second movie picks up after the court killing, and the saints are back in Ireland. They have beards, and they are doing stuff, i don’t known.. it just didn’t make any freaking sense whatsoever, but they were in Ireland. Then some priest gets killed in New York in an attempt to lure out the saints. The son of the mobster they killed wants revenge.. Then there is a whole scene were they shower and shave, all men love to see that kinda stuff right?

They take some oil tanker ship to New York and meet some stupid Mexican who finds out that they are the saints. Now this Mexican character acts so shitty and has such a shit role in the movie that the moment he enters the story everything turns to shit. In the first movie Rocco was “the funny man” and added some comedy. They replaced him with some Mexican douche who is about as funny as rape. His jokes suck and he just RUINS the whole movie. His “non obscure” car is a pimped out beetle with neon lights and its just trashy. He also gets his own guns which have the colors of the Mexican flag. Its just retarded really.

And that is pretty much it.. there are two action scenes, both which suck and are very unlike the original movie. One of the best things about the first movie was the CSI, Law&Order, Criminal investigation type scenes were the police tried to guess how the saints killed the gangsters. The guy who did this was really funny and played his role very well. He got replaced by some hot young blond wearing high heels. The two girls who watched this movie with me just started complaining about her every time she was on the screen..

In the end I felt cheated. The story is not that bad, really (i am having trouble convincing myself here)! The characters are stupid, the action scenes are lame, and everything else sucks. I am glad i didn’t pay for a theater ticket for this. The director should be complimented on his fuckup skills, all he had to do was make the saints go to a different city then New York and kick some ass there. I would have been very content to watch the saints go on a killing spree in Las Vegas, or even somewhere in Europe like Amsterdam or Paris. Managing to fuckup this simple formula can only be applauded because it has to take more effort to turn it to shit then it takes to make a decent movie.