The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

Plot synopsis:
After the McManus brothers, Connor and Murphy, and their father, Noah (a.k.a. "Il Duce"), assassinated Joe Yakavetta, they fled to Ireland. Eight years later, their uncle Father Sibeal arrives to inform them that a renowned Boston priest was murdered by a mysterious assassin who attempted to frame the Saints by using their ritual assassination style. In response, the brothers dig up their old gear and weapons and depart for the United States.
En route to Boston aboard a container ship, the brothers meet a Mexican underground fighter named Romeo, who recognizes them as the Saints. Romeo convinces them to let him join them as their new partner. Hearing a radio broadcast regarding Joe's son, Concezio Yakavetta, they deduce that he must have hired the hit-man who killed the priest in order to draw them out of hiding.
Meanwhile, Detectives Greenly, Dolly and Duffy are at the scene of the priest's murder. They are greeted by Special Agent Eunice Bloom, the protégée of Paul Smecker (who has died) who has been assigned to investigate the murder and determine whether or not the Saints are responsible. She comes to the conclusion that it was not the Saints who murdered the cleric and begins an investigation to find the real assassin. She and the other officers find out the assassin is Ottilio Panza, a man who appears to be working for a mysterious man known only as "The Old Man".
Connor, Murphy and Romeo hit a warehouse that is being used by an Asian gang to process heroin for Yakavetta. After killing everyone at the warehouse, Connor and Murphy reunite with their old bartender friend, Doc. They learn that the assassin was an independent contractor and that Yakavetta himself is hiding in the Prudential Tower. Later at the warehouse, now a crime scene, Bloom confirms that the Saints have returned. Bloom interrupts a massage in progress and hits a mob boss with a paddle, displaying her identity.
The brothers and Romeo have one of Yakavetta's underbosses named Gorgeous George set up a meeting with a group of mobsters at a bar, where they kill them. Panza arrives shortly after and attempts to ambush the brothers, but Bloom arrives in time to save them by wounding Panza who flees. Bloom introduces herself, revealing her intentions to help the Saints in Smecker's place. The group then cleans up the crime scene to make it look as if the mobsters had turned on each other. Later, Bloom reunites the other detectives with the Saints, thus bringing them in on their plans.
Yakavetta calls a meeting with his crew, during which the Saints arrive and kill everyone including Yakavetta. Bloom interrogates Yakavetta's Consigliere Jimmy and learns of the Old Man's involvement with Panza. The crime scene is visited by FBI Special Agent Kuntsler, who takes over the gang murder case upon suspending Bloom. Later at the bar, Greenly arrives to celebrate the boys' victory, but is shot and killed by Panza. Noah, earlier having decided to help his sons, unexpectedly arrives to demand Panza tell him the Old Man's location. They engage in a type of "Russian Roulette" stand-off and after Panza still refuses to answer, Noah kills him.
Noah reveals to the group that in 1958 New York, he watched a trio of mobsters brutally murder his father in front of his eyes. Consumed with anger and wanting revenge, Noah killed the mobsters with the help of his best friend Louie, who is revealed to be the Old Man. Noah still felt unsatisfied, so Louie helped him pick out mobsters to kill. They continued this until 1975, when Louie gave Noah up to the police.
Bloom illegally obtains a file regarding Louie's location and gives it to Noah. Louie, anticipating the Saints arrival at his mansion, has several hit-men stationed on the grounds. When the McManus family arrives, Louie reveals that he had only used Noah to eliminate the competition in the Mafia, afterwards giving him up to the police when he was no longer useful. After this however, the Mafia cast Louie himself out for the very same reason. He then helped rebuild the Yakavetta family after Joe's demise and let the Saints take out the rest of the organization so Louie could take control. Louie signals the hit-men waiting to take out the Saints to make their move, but the Saints kill them all. Noah suffers a fatal gunshot wound, but kills Louie before he dies. The Police arrive and arrest the wounded Connor, Murphy and Romeo.
Bloom meets with Father Sibeal who has arranged to take her to a safe place out of the country to flee FBI prosecution. She is shocked to discover that Sibeal has been working with Smecker who faked his own death and developed a network of support for the Saints and their work. Smecker tells Bloom his plans to break the Saints out of prison.
As protesters outside of the prison shout for the freedom of the Saints, Connor and Murphy stare out of their window at the sea of prisoners in the yard, finding that they'll have plenty of work while they wait to be freed.

Tags: comedy, stupid, cult, violence, flashback, revenge

Review:
But the southern accent is so thick I had a hard time focusing on anything else.I would like to make a special note of how ridiculous it is for someone to dual-wield Desert Eagles, even if they have compensators attached.Still, none of my complaints stopped me from enjoying the movie.
I took it for what it is, and I think I'm better off for it.Many people criticize Troy and the films themselves, some going so far as to say fans should go kill themselves.
The editing is a little spotty at times, and not everything hits the right beat, but simply to see the boys in action again was enough to make me smile and laugh out loud, and once again, isn't that what movies are supposed to do?
I am working hard to write anything else about this movie to make ten lines since I really thought it was awful and there are only so many ways you can talk about how terrible the lines, characters and lack of plot are.
The story soon opens up into a deeper plot about past sins coming back to haunt their characters.All Saints Day continues the duologue slick, trigger happy style of the first film with rapid fire gun play, film homages, and snapfire duologue that is throughly entertaining.
Being a fan of the Saints for years I went into this movie with high expectations and a good amount of personal excitement.
Unfortunately, this movie fell way below the standards set by the first installment, for these reasons:.paper thin plot = very generic, the kind of thing you come up with in five minutes of stereotypical mob brainstorming..Dumbed down = Where the first movie succeeded in being witty and fun the second can only survive off of gay jokes and three stooges antics..Copying = It seemed like every single well known moment in the first movie was copy and pasted into this movie with the exact same outcome every time.
These characters worked in the first film because they actually had a decent performance to play off of.Don't get me wrong, Julie Benz is great on Dexter, but she was just god awful in this movie.
The only people who are going to watch this are those who liked the original (which was a great niche action movie 8/10 stars).
BSII fails to love up to the original in every way; interesting & entertaining characters are replaced with cheap & annoying ones; old gimmicks are simply rehashed; the leads look old & tired; recurring characters look lost & bewildered; and where the original BS story was simple, tight, & original, BS2's plot is overcomplicated and contrived.There are some thrills and spills to be had in BSII, but it is difficult to watch something fall so far short from the quality of the original.On the Fruit-Meter, BSII gets the "SULTANA (or RAISEN)' – The original grape was fresh and juicy, the sequel has lost all the original zesty flavours and has too many wrinkles..
Sure, I saw "Overnight" and bore witness to the train wreck that was Troy Duffy but I always felt saddened by the fact that the original movie showed that he actually had talent and that his demise meant never seeing what he could do if given all of the right ingredients to make more films.
This movie is the second Boondock Saints film, yes, that's right, it's NUMBER TWO!.
Hot on their heels special agent Eunice (Julie Benz), trained by the legendary Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe's character in the original).Verging on a spoof rife with pointless and unwelcome nods to the original this is Troy Duffy on self-destruct mode essentially rendering his previous accomplishment with the first movie null and void.
To the extent that I feel strongly obliged to rewatch "The Boondock Saints" and reassess my initial positive reaction to the concept and execution.Featuring some atrocious script filled with terrible jokes, jabs and punchlines, sold by a less than involved cast giving an eye-gouging terrible ensemble performance, hardly anything goes right for the movie.
As expected the story is unfeasible and overboard, but lacks any degree of subtlety with settings constantly on mock mode.A pointless and harmful sequel to "The Boondock Saints", which will likely implode Troy Duffy's movie career..
Let me preface this by saying that Boondock Saints (the original) is my favorite movie.
Those characters (and Sean, Norman and Billy) deserved a better fate.No clue what the hell Duffy was thinking, but I can tell you: this is one movie I will never recommend to friends.
The very cool agent Willem Dafoe has been replaced by a female FBI agent who acts a bit too tough for her character and has a southern accent that is again, very annoying and distracts from the actual story.At 2 hours playtime in total I'd recommend that you'll find something else to with your time...ANYTHING else...clean up your house, sleep go out or take a walk..
Julie Benz gave probably the strongest performance, though for the life of me I did not recognise her at all, yet Clifton Collins Jr. failed miserably in replacing David Della Rocco's character While watching the film I was already preparing my review, hoping that my opinion would change by the end, and I was most looking forward to slating the writer and director for so badly following in Troy Duffy's footsteps, well at least until the credits started rolling and I discovered that Troy Duffy wrote and directed this film as well.
The long awaited, highly anticipated sequel to the cult classic did not disappoint, and we were lucky enough to be able to view it along with Troy Duffy, Bob Marley, Billy Connolly, Sean Patrick Flanery, and Norman Reedus.
Fans of the first movie will definitely enjoy seeing this film and is a MUST SEE for any Boondock fanatic.
Even with a gratuitous scene of Rocko and the boys telling jokes that had nothing at all to do with the rest of the movie.Someone else said it best, it's as if Troy Duffy plagiarized himself.
The cat scene was hilarious in the first one, however, after a cat walked across the bar while they were all drinking and they all gave the camera a goofy look I almost lost it.This sort of thing is seen throughout, instead of new characters we just have new faces which are kind of like a copy of a copy.
Instead of new dynamic characters each character is flattened down a bit and basically told to act like their predecessor.Anyways, I hoped that Duffy was going to do honors to the BDS with the sequel, however, he just kind of ruined them.Bottomline: Stupidest movie I've seen in a while..
I sincerely regret paying $7.50 for the ticket, and I was a huge fan of the first Saints' movie.Not only are the "new" characters clumsy dubs of the missing ones, but they are incredibly less entertaining and embarrassingly corny.
I was just looking for some good Boston punk or classic Irish bagpipes, and I was left disappointed.If you are a fan of the first movie, avoid the second at all costs..
Other reviewers have done that.At one time I actually thought they'd had to have switched some of the actors from the first movie and just made them look like the macmanus brothers, because an actor should have got better after 10 years no?.
The only good thing about the movie was the humor which is why I even gave it a one out of ten as opposed to pretending it ever existed.If you are a fan of the Boondock Saints and almost cried when Rocko got shot, DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE IT WILL ONLY RUIN THE FIRST ONE..
The fact that people who claim to be fans of the original like this movie baffles me.
Apart from terrible acting, an even worse script, yet worse directing and excruciating lack of sense for detail, Boondock Saints 2 is also the most stereotypical sequel I've ever seen, thus deeming it tragically dreadful.
This movie is a continuation/re-hash of the same thing, only with considerably worse acting, writing, and damn near everything else (as far as my memory tells me - the original wasn't without its flaws, but things do get hazy).Maybe I need to re-watch the original, but a friend of mine (who recently did see the first movie) hated this sequel more than I did.Normally I can rely on IMDb ratings but in this case, the 6.1 rating it had the night I saw the movie was a bit misleading.
Seems like they thought of a couple dozen fun sequences to shoot, threw them into a hat, shuffled them up, and stuck them on a story board.I was a huge fan of the original Boondock Saints and have been looking forward to the sequel for years now.
Can he see that nobody likes his films and that the only people that go watch them are a bunch of annoying frat boys who probably devoured too many brain cells with alcohol that they can't even tell what makes a good film or not.I won't talk about the plot cause like in the matrix when the boy tells keanu that "there is no spoon" he should mention to people thinking about watching this movie should know that "there is no Plot." Even compared to 1960's action films this movie doesn't match up and I've seen films that go back into the 1900's.Some people say that the movies highlight was Willem Dafoe playing the flamboyant investigator who apparently doesn't have a problem with insulting gays considering he's gay himself.
Yeah.....Well even though I like Willem dafoe and I think he was missused for the first film, he decided not to jump on board for the sequel and "I wonder why?" So now the director decides to put in Julie Benz as the replacement.
If this is were the popularity of films is heading to then I just feel bad about cinema itself to see crap like the boondock saints get notoriety when it doesn't deserve any recognition.
The movie was so bad that I cannot ever watch Boondock Saints I EVER again!.
When my brother called he original had been one of my favorite movies of its period, and a quick glance at IMDb confirmed that not only did the sequel have the same director/producer, the cast was also pretty much the same.Imagine my surprise when, after OK-ish opening scenes, it turned into something that could be mistaken for an Austin Powers installment only, contrary to Mike Myers' brilliant comedy, totally not funny.I will not go into the storyline as, apparently, there isn't one.
If your the kind of person who liked the movie Crank and Shoot 'em Up, then you will like the sequel to the Boondock Saints.
On top of the movie being awful - you had a really big sense that they did not know where they wanted to take the so called plot, many characters were useless, I was just waiting for it to end.
I think the original Boondock Saints is fun film with lots of great acting and quirky characters.
Duffy is eager to please, going with guns-blazing, lots of tough-talk, heart-beat style splicing, a lot of slow-mo (a naked shower scene, gun fights, a sexy chick's legs just to name a few), cool sunglasses, religious overtones and childish jokes (gay gags, naked ass), but his writing doesn't really crack between lulls of action and he has less stylistic discipline than Michael Bay.The whole thing is like bland Tarantino (guys playing with guns, killing bad-guys, sums it up).
This movie is a joke.It makes you wonder how ass backwards lucky this director (Troy Duffy) must have been for the first screenplay+film to actually turn out good.
That's my working theory as far as The Boondock Saints goes, because this movie is so damn bad, it's like a made for TV action movie that wasn't good enough for TV and just got shelved and replaced by Sabrina The Teenage Witch reruns because the station didn't want to embarrass itself.I would only recommend this Boondock Saints II to people if I didn't want them to ask me for movie recommendations anymore.p.s. IMDb kiss my ass..
I will say that I'm pretty lazy, but I actually went through the trouble to register at IMDb in order to review this movie and save some people from seeing it and tarnishing the glory that was Boondock Saints.This sequel was a horribly written, terribly acted, awfully edited, and painfully scored disgrace to one of my favorite movies.
I could Tolerate that for 118 minutes a lot easier.I hear there may be a 3rd one made in this serious, why oh why I ask when this one (the second) in the series has ruined any credibility the film could ever have.Well anyway onto the movie itself, this has the worst acting / Storyline and effects of any movie I have watched in a long time.
All Saints Day feels like two hyper-testosterone boys, desperate to be "REAL MEN", with no cinematic experience that didn't involve loony toons, got together and wrote a shitty fanfic based on the first movie, and someone read it and thought to themselves that this was a great way to try and build a franchise.
(I originally like the element where Willem Dafoe's character appeared in the actions scenes as we saw them in flashback)No surprises at all in the film.
I can only assume Clifton Collins was running short on rent to take this role as he had some of the worst character moments in the film.Let's hope it's at least another 10 years before this director gives it another go.
It was the best movie I had seen since the Dark Knight, hell i think its as good if not better as the original.
If you liked the first movie (which I did...in fact, I own a couple copies) then you're going to be disappointed in this sequel.
Sequels are usually wanted, but then again not because everyone wants to remember the (great) original movie as it is, and not see a chance to 'ruin' it.So a director can go different ways.
Try something different and make a different kind of story with the Boondock Saints, or try and keep it in the same spirit of the original movie.
Before I bash a movie that I looked so forward to seeing, let me say, I am a huge Boondock Saints fan.
As someone who enjoyed the first Boondock Saints (I don't praise it up and down like most, but I recognise it as a well made film) I thought that the sequel was terrible.
The film set up for a sequel, and years went by with rumours that it would actually come together, despite the documented attitude of writer/director Troy Duffy.
But ten years seems to have done a number on any expectations for the film.Picking up some time after the titular saints Conner and Murphy McManus (Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus) went into hiding with their father, the infamous assassin Il Duce (Billy Connolly), the brothers are called back to Boston after a priest is brutally murdered in the same way they killed gangsters years before.
When they do return, with new friend Romeo (Clifton Collins Jr.), they quickly realize they are only part of a much bigger plan.It is agonizing to say it, based on my love for the original film, but The Boondock Saints II is just plain awful.
The film plays off more like a cartoony parody of The Boondock Saints, not an actual sequel.
But it feels like he is standing in the way of the titular characters really taking off and making something of themselves in the movie.
Overall, it was fun to watch if you are a Boondock Saints fan, but it will never touch the greatness of the original..
Even the music, the memorable and catchy Gregorian chant-like electronic beat playing in the elevator from the first film has a reprise.Duffy looks back on the things that made Boondock Saints 1 a cult classic and builds on it.
It also seemed like the director tried too hard to make this movie funny, but it fails just about every time.5/10.
Writer/director Troy Duff has wanted (and deserved) a sequel to his original Boondock Saints, and after all the rumors and near misses, it's finally here ...
In my opinion, the first movie focused on the "Sin of Indifference of Good Men" In this film, I felt the moral being taught is "Are You a Talker or a Doer?" Definitely does not ruin the first movie as most sequels do, but this does enhance the back-story of the original.You will not be disappointed to spend money on theater tickets and then turn around and buy the DVD..
Fans of the original film will find very, very little disappointment with the sequel.
This sequel is everything Boondock Saints fans like myself have waited ten years for.
It's been 10 years, the actors have aged, Duffy was blacklisted and the cult film Boondock Saints seemed to be better left untouched with a sequel.
The only reason I attempted to watch this horrible film was to see what happened to the brothers, and just like the first film, you have a whole lot of bad actors and acting that includes Julie Benz awful...
There must bean audience out there for this kind of movie - otherwise a sequel would never have been made 10 years from the original!
I loved the first film and eagerly awaited the arrival of a sequel, so when it arrived I got very excited to see it.Within 20 minutes I thought, this must have a different directer or writer but to my shock though, it has not.It screams TV movie, and not a good one which is fitting seeing the cast is full of TV actors.Julie Benz and the three stooges (detectives) seem to have lost any ability to act, trying too hard to be funny when it is not necessary.