The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
Apparition | Release Date: October 30, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
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3
Negative:
13
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50
Boston GlobeTy Burr
The result isn’t art but it is an improvement: a scurrilous, lowdown, sub-Tarantino action comedy that, unlike the original, doesn’t make you want to claw your eyes out. How’s that for praise? Read full review
50
The New York TimesMike Hale
Like its predecessor, All Saints Day will, if nothing else, be a cult item for Roman Catholic schoolboys; the next sequel, blatantly set up, should arrive no later than 2019. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The only truly ugly side to this self-consciously grimy movie is the streak of Neanderthal humor. Operatic overacting is funny. Racist and homophobic jokes? Not so much. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
The Boondock Saints II does, from time to time, display a vulgar charm. Or maybe it just wears you out. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle Smith
You wouldn't call The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day a taut thriller. More like a fleshy, messy, jangled frenzy of shootouts and much discussion about the mechanics of romantic entanglements that bloom between prison inmates. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
After nine years, Duffy has coughed up a sequel, and like the first movie it's energetic, proudly juvenile, and reverently derivative. Read full review
30
Village VoiceAaron Hillis
John Woo outgrew stylizing movies like this in the '90s, but Duffy is still chasing his perfect slide-and-shoot, except now with more self-satisfied posturing, awkward pop-culture referencing, casual homophobia and racism, and the most vulgar co-opting of religious iconography this side of Dan Brown. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Although the Tarantino influence still is tangible, this time around Duffy reveals himself to also be a big Francis Ford Coppola fan, but the cartoonish end result plays like "Godfather III" meets the Three Stooges. Read full review
30
VarietyPeter Debruge
Feels larger in scope yet sorely lacking in originality. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele
Duffy tamps down his best instincts -- occasional wry humor and the appealingly oddball supporting character (Willem Dafoe last time, a bug-eyed Clifton Collins Jr. here as the MacManus' admiring Latino cohort) -- and doubles up on his worst: homophobic gags, tedious '90s-era slo-mo shootouts and overwrought gangster tropes. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyAdam Markovitz
Earns points only for being remarkably unself-conscious about its across-the-board ineptitude. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
An idiotic ode to macho horseshite (to employ an ancient Irish word). It is however distinguished by superb cinematography. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Just the same auld same auld. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith Uhlich
Only Billy Connolly, as the boys’ way-of-the-gun pa, brings a smidgen of sobering gravitas to the proceedings, though he can hardly counter the pounding hangover brought on by all the mock-virtuous butchery. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubSam Adams
Duffy's inept command of actors, not to mention his utterly juvenile morality and his comically clumsy use of religious iconography, should keep all but the diehards away. Read full review
11
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Isn't for everyone, obviously; it might not be for anyone, come to think of it. Read full review
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