Getting caught up on my movie watching - The Boondock Saints

I put the movie "The Boondock Saints" in my Netflix queue a couple of months ago. I kept running across the title while looking for Oz fic*, read the synopsis and thought "why not?". It's a pretty light (more in weight than in tone), but very enjoyable film. Pure testosterone throughout and Willem Dafoe is a hoot as the FBI investigator (a character that's so unbelievably great, that I wish I could have written him). Most of the violence happens in flashback during the course of the investigation (I was watching an unrated cut, but there was nothing there that made me overly squeamish). It was paced well, didn't suffer from any excess. My only complaint would be that I couldn't understand what the characters were saying some of the time (that's where the subtitles came in handy), but other than that, it was a good film.

* Oh yeah, and any movie that has a character named Murphy McManus is okay in my book.

(I need to write some McManus fic and soon...)

Getting caught up on my movie watching - The Boondock Saints

I put the movie "The Boondock Saints" in my Netflix queue a couple of months ago. I kept running across the title while looking for Oz fic*, read the synopsis and thought "why not?". It's a pretty light (more in weight than in tone), but very enjoyable film. Pure testosterone throughout and Willem Dafoe is a hoot as the FBI investigator (a character that's so unbelievably great, that I wish I could have written him). Most of the violence happens in flashback during the course of the investigation (I was watching an unrated cut, but there was nothing there that made me overly squeamish). It was paced well, didn't suffer from any excess. My only complaint would be that I couldn't understand what the characters were saying some of the time (that's where the subtitles came in handy), but other than that, it was a good film.

* Oh yeah, and any movie that has a character named Murphy McManus is okay in my book.

(I need to write some McManus fic and soon...)