Genre: Film
Grade: B with a twist
Notable People: Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flannery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, Directed by Troy Duffy
Title: Boondog Saints
Review – so- apparently this is some kind of cult classic amongst a certain set. Had never heard of it until my kids gave it to me for my birthday. Took several months to watch it (it’s a 19999 out on blue ray-and on Netflix), and it’s pretty weird. To very Irish twin brothers in south Boston become murdering avengers of evil- along with an Italian sidekick. The dialog is weird, the cinematography is weird, the acting is over the top…and Dafoe is absolutely nuts….but it’s hard not to like. They all seemed to have really good time making this film and it does have a certain urban kitsch to it that is hard to resist…almost a Boston version of Pulp Fiction- I think the director must be a big Tarantino fan. Not a bad way to spend an evening- it’s a B movie that is in the band width of so bad it’s good.
ah drove mah cah to the bah afta ah sah the ”boondock saints”!