The Boondock Saints is a high school boys fantasy film. If there were boobs in it no high school boy would watch anything else. It's a quick, fun, violent film with a lot of energy and action. Even though that can be said about a lot of action films The Boondock Saints has something about it that makes it special which is why the film has gained such a huge cult following.
The plot centers around two brothers who decide to become vigilantes and start killing all of the evil power players in Boston, however they soon get in over their heads when both the mob and a crazed FBI agent (Willam Dafoe) begin hunting them down.
The film is really formalistic and ultra stylized. It is presented in a mostly linear way with a lot of flashbacks and non linear moments. We often see the aftermath of a crime scene before seeing what happened. The examination of the crime scenes are some of my favorite moments as FBI agent Paul Smecker (Dafoe) goes through them in some sort of brilliant yet crazed way.
The film has a great humor about itself and never really seems to take itself too seriously. The dialogue is well written and delivered.
The Boondock Saints is a fun introduction to indie action films, a gateway drug to them if you will. It is a film that is by no means a technical masterpiece but it never really strives to be. It's a film that is self aware without feeling self aware. It is a fun way to spend a couple of hours which seems to be the films goal.
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