Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day Movie Review 5.5/10!

Ok, firstly, I loved the first movie and I am utterly fascinated by the train wreck that is Troy Duffy. But lets be honest, what he is is a huge ass who somehow came up with a good movie idea and script and even more unbelievably got major funding with no movie experience whatsoever. Then he got blackballed because he was such an ass and his movie didn't even get main stream released. However, despite that, it became a cult classic, and is actually a pretty creative and well made movie. However, it appears, and quite predictable so, that he is a bit of a one bullet Barney. His second film does not capture the same feel or charm of the first one, and it is quite obvious that he is pressing and trying to capture the same magic and feel that he stumbled upon. It, for the most part, fails. The story is supposed to be a bit more epic, a lifelong tail, but its cumbersome flashback scenes make it less than powerful. The secondary antagonist has all this interested set up, but never gets evolved and eventually he just goes down like a chump. Also, one thing I never though I would say, THIS MOVIE NEEDS MORE WILLEM DEFOE. His role as FBI Agent Smecker was hilarious and fantastic in the first movie, and his presence is sorely missed in the second one. In the end, I gave this a slightly better than average rating because I loved the characters and the first one. However, where as I recommend the first one to just about everyone, I will only recommend the second one to hardcore fans of the original.