Things I liked about it:Willem Dafoe’s character is a mostly pointless narrative device and a gross homosexual stereotype, but he DOES give a good performance in itthe chemistry between the two brothers is believable. I could buy the idea that they were actually brothers, and they did their best with the material they were giventhe rule of thumb joke at the beginning (ought to be rule of wrist) which was the inspiration for this post so in that regard I was wrongthe dead cattwo of the songs with Irish pipes on themBilly Connolly. Enough saidThings I didn’t like about it (pretty much everything else):David Della Rocco is simply not funny. I can’t imagine who would have called him the funny guy because he didn’t make me laugh once. His character is stupid, short-sighted, and generally not likeablethe cinematography is cheap and dim, like bad television from this era. There are scenes where the backgrounds are more brightly lit than the characters faces, which is what you’re supposed to be looking atthe screenplay reads like a first draft by a 90s frat boy who just saw Pulp Fiction and Snatch for the first time. The really annoying trope is that the story keeps cutting ahead to Willem Dafoe telling the audience what happened when the brothers killed gangsters on 3 separate occasions. It kills the pacing and doesn’t let the audience think for itselfthe rampant racism and misogyny that is supposed to be played for laughsthe entire message of fighting evil with violence is undermined by glorifying the violence committed by the brothers. It’s like watching some slow-no fantasy by someone who heard violence in movies was bad but didn’t have a point of reference for itthat I second-guessed myself and spent nearly 2 hours watching a movie that I knew was shitty in an attempt to be open-mindedTL;DR The Boondock Saints has about 6 things I liked in it but not enough to redeem it as a work of cinema, and I feel vindicated af via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3kwYkyx
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