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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 401
Released: May 23, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Collector's Edition Color Dolby Full Screen Widescreen NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
Explore the harrowing world of The Boondock Saints as never before in this Unrated Special Edition! Digitally remastered for extraordinary picture quality and exploding in 5.1 EX Dolby Surround Sound, this definitive two-disc edition of the cult phenomenon features deleted scenes, outtakes, two audio commentaries, a printable script and more!
Hot on the trail of the assailants behind the brutal murder of Russian thugs, FBI agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe) is surprised to discover the killers are Irish twin brothers (Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus) who believe they've been chosen to rid the world of evil. But as they unleash more brutality on the criminals of Boston's underworld, Smecker finds himself torn between busting the vigilantes...and joining them!
Description of Boondock Saints (Unrated Special Edition):
Charismatic young stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus play two Irish brothers, Connor and Murphy, who believe themselves ordained by God to rid the world of evil men. Their first killing is in self-defense; but after that, they start killing with devotion, gunning down a summit of the Russian mafia. Willem Dafoe plays a gay FBI agent (he listens to opera while examining crime scenes) who knows what the boys are doing but feels that their vigilante tactics are necessary. There's not much plot to The Boondock Saints--it's mostly a series of violent scenes in which the boys are partially ingenious and partially lucky. The movie seems to want to provoke debate about vigilantism, but the scenario is too implausible to stir any real controversy. The peculiar mix of earnestness and machismo will not appeal to everyone, but it's certainly unique and may acquire a cult following. --Bret Fetzer
Boondock Saints (Unrated Special Edition) Reviews:
any one who doesnt like this 
2009-12-07 - i dont know how anyone can hate this movie its insane and awesome cant wait to see the second one
great service but hated the movie! 
2009-12-02 - I received my DVD in a timely manner, but hated the movie & turned it off after 15 min.
Awesome Movie
2009-12-02 - This movie is by far one of my top 5 favorite of all time. I love the action, the love between two brothers sort of reminds me of me and mine. I use to own the dvd, but desided to upgrade to bluray. The sound and picture are amazing. I recommend this to anyone.
John Woo as filtered through a 20-something manchild's sticky retard fingers 
2009-11-26 - Amateurishly written and directed, an overt message movie with an appalling message, and the single most derivative movie I've ever had the displeasure of watching. The next time you see a male, aged 16-25, deriding the tween demographic that has unleashed Twilight upon us, just remind him of this cinematic afterbirth. Eventually he's probably going to grow up and forsake this trash.
The Word "Terrible" Comes To Mind When Watching This Movie, But Then Again That's Just My Opinion, More or Less (More)
2009-11-18 - Why all the talk about this movie? I watched this movie long after it became popular, barely got through it without trying to kill myself and desired to have all memory of it washed from my mind when it was over. The basic formula for this story: Stereotypical, hard-drinking Irish brothers + Russian mafia (what are they doing here?) + FBI trailing the work of vigilantes = Repetitive "plot" of this exceptionally boring movie.
All these guys do is drink, play with guns and kill "evil" men they think God has appointed them to do so. Most of the action scenes are shown in flashback, after a charismatic detective played by the Greatest Actor in the World, Willem Dafoe, brilliantly relates to a dumb subordinate and apparently half-baked bunch of second string FBI agents, or something. Dafoe's character, who owns the best lines in the "film," knows the leprechaun assassins are responsible for all of this violence but must see something in them others don't; this might provoke a short discussion about vigilantism, but one that's been had before, and only by the most desperate of viewers trying to squeeze something out of this movie. Anyone else might proclaim the action scenes as "bad-ass" and the storyline altogether as "groundbreaking" but original this movie surely ain't.
This is probably what happened:
"Hey, let's make a movie about Irish vigilantes!"
"Awesome! What happens?"
"What do you mean? They're IRISH. And they're VIGILANTES. What else do you need to know?"
"Um... okay, sounds good."
The premise for the movie was one page long, the dialogue heavily-accented and improvised. Hell, anyone can write a movie. Turns out they made a sequel to this movie.
"Hey, remember that movie about the Irish vigilantes?"
"Yeah, that was great! Scathing reviews, totally awesome cult following though (primarily made of high school kids)."
"Let's make another one!"
"Okay. What about?"
"Same thing."
And who says they're running out of ideas for movies?
