Apparition | USA | 118 min

By the traditional definition The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is not a good movie, but as the last few years have taught us with films like Crank, Gamer, Crank 2, Bad Boys II, and most recently Ninja Assassin, sometimes that traditional definition does not apply. Writer/director Troy Duffy has delivered a film that packs a punch of stylized violence and offensive yet still comical (in their own sadistic way) one liners to make anyone who was already a fan of the brothers happy and anyone who was on the fence have an enjoyable experience with the movie. However, anyone who despises the first film will not find anything that will change their opinion of The Saints. Read the full story

If you don’t know the name then you have been living under a rock for the last 10 years. Troy Duffy is the mastermind writer/director of the cult classic The Boondock Saints and he returns for the sequel. I got to talk to the man himself to get his thoughts on the upcoming sequel, the return of Rocco and the handling of the film release.
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These two need no introduction. They are the ones people think of when they hear The Boondock Saints. The duo of Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery, better known as the MacManus brothers Connor and Murphy. I got to speak to both of them about the sequel, other projects they have going on and their opinion of Troy Duffy and Overnight.

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Julie Benz’s work ranges from the bloody-entertaining Dexter to female leads in action films such as Rambo and Punisher: War Zone. She’s now adding another action film to her resume with The Boondock Saints: All Saints Day. She’s a new character for the Boondock world, but is connected through Willem Dafoe’s character from the first film. Benz declares this as new territory for her and yet it will still go down as another geek-friendly film under her filmography.

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Playing perhaps one of the more well known (or at least cult-famous) supporting characters in recent memory, David Della Rocco’s “Rocco” provides the comic relief of the cult classic. I had the opportunity to speak to him about the upcoming installment to the Boondock series.
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Boondock isn’t Boondock without some cops chasing the tail of the two brothers right? Well, that is exactly what Brian Mahoney and Bob Marley, who play Detective Duffy and Detective Greenly respectively, do in The Boondock Saints. Mahoney was a military pilot before getting into acting and Marley to this day is a stand-up comic who got to play one of the most popular roles of his career. I spoke with both of them about what it was like to work on the first film and being able to return 10 years later.
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Up next on our interview series is producer Chris Brinker. You might not know his name but Brinker is the only producer involved with both the original film and the upcoming sequel. I spoke with him about his thoughts about the sequel.

It’s been 10 years so what has changed for you and your relationship to the film and did you keep in contact with Troy [Duffy]?

Oh absolutely, me and troy have basically been working on this for 10 years. We did the first film together and we did the second film together and during that time we were developing the screen play and perusing a deal that made sense because we wanted to make the second film and we had to make sure we had enough money to actually shoot the script and over the course of years was an uphill battle of sorts. We found ourselves in a fortunate position to be able to do this movie. Now we’re in a position where Sony has picked it up and is going to be distributing it worldwide.

Is the movie getting a wide or limited release?
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Today begins a new interview series for TFS. Over the next few days you will see interviews from many cast and crew members of the upcoming sequel, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day starting with Bob Rubin. Now, you probably don’t know the name, but Rubin is a newcomer to the The Boondock Saints series. He is a stand up comic who is in the new sequel playing the character of Gorgeous George. Check out the interview below.

Merrill Barr: First question, how did you get the part of Gorgeous George in Boondock 2?

Bob Rubin: I was doing a Monday night at this club in Hollywood and Troy Duffy was in the audience, I didn’t know it. He liked my stand up and he kept coming back and then we met one night at one of the shows. That basically led to the part, he told me that he wanted to use me and gave me a script in July of 2008. Then I worked on it with him and I did a screen test at which point Sony Pictures signed off on me.

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By “those kind of movies” I mean those films that are pseudo-smart and pseudo-deep, presenting paper-thin messages as an excuse for rampant style and gratuitous everything: sex, violence and the like. Films like Lucky Number Slevin, Running Scared, Smokin Aces and many more. It’s style over substance through and through, but the filmmakers wouldn’t have you know it, because they do not know it themselves. These are all passionate films made by passionate artists, much like those modern artists who mess up a bed and are proud to call it art or stream a 30-second film reel continuously while obstructing the viewfinder with objects (like a tree branch or something) to distort and abstract the cellulite on display. It’s kitsch and style and pretension personified, and the thought process behind goes as far as the art itself, no matter how deep the passion.

Which brings us back to The Boondocks Saints, which, for this moment in media, serves as the kingpin of those kinds of movies. As a matter of fact, it’s been the kingpin of those kinds of movies for some time. Since the infamous box office failure of both the film and the filmmaker (one Troy Duffy), Saints has gathered a cult following worthy of its own religion (which is ironic when you consider the skewed Catholic plot elements, but I digress).

The film itself is a fun-to-watch, poorly shot, decently written, haphazardly directed little action thing that offers its art in only one color: blood red. There’s nothing deep about the tale of two Irish “brudders” presumably called by God to murder all the criminals of Boston, jumping off a line a priest utters in the opening scene of the film, that the worst kind of evil is “the indifference of good men.”

These men are certainly not indifferent. And neither are they good. They are murderers and they murder brutally, creatively and passionately which, in a way, is a metaphor for the way Duffy handles his own material on screen. His cuts are incoherent and his lines heavy-handed (full of “fucks” and “cunts” and gay jokes and stereotypes, no matter how clever they’re delivered) and the timeline of his beloved story jumps from past to present and back.

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The trailer for The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day has finally been released. The film stars the returning Norman Reedus, Sean Patrick Flanery, Billy Connolly, and new cast member Julie Benz. The film is written and directed by Troy Duffy.

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