The Boondock Saints (1999) movie poster

The Boondock Saints (1999)

"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done."
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👍 89%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 35%
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Director
Troy Duffy
Runtime
1h 48m
Rated
R
Country
Canada, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.3/10 (2,636 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
26%
Metacritic
44

Cast

Willem Dafoe as Paul Smecker · 71% avg
Sean Patrick Flanery as Conner MacManus · 71% avg
Norman Reedus as Murphy MacManus · 69% avg
David Della Rocco as Rocco
Billy Connolly as Il Duce · 73% avg
Bob Marley as Detective Greenly
Brian Mahoney as Detective Duffy
Gerard Parkes as Doc

Is The Boondock Saints good?

Yes. 89% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 35%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#126 / 1971 · Action
Rank in its year
#9 / 103 · 1999
On ThumbScore's lists
The Best Crime Movies on Hulu (#3) · The Best Action Movies on Peacock (#5) · The Best Crime Movies on Peacock (#5) · Best Free Crime Movies on Roku Channel (#8)

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker, an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on their blood-soaked trail. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

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⬆ 56,662💬 1,123 comments
In The Boondock Saints (1999) it is established in the beginning that Il Duce only has one rule, that he doesn't kill women or children. This is why Willem Dafoe's character is the only one to survive his slaughter during this scene.
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Top comment: "*THERE WAS A FIIIIREEFIIIIGHHT!!!*"
r/MovieDetails
⬆ 22,988💬 404 comments
In The Boondock Saints (1999), Agent Smecker gets almost every detail of the poker game crime scene recreation right. The one detail he has wrong ("six men with guns drawn" instead of one man with six guns) is presented blurred and out of focus instead of clear like the rest of his recreation.
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Top comment: "There was a fire fiiight!!!"
r/MovieDetails
⬆ 6,586💬 190 comments
In The Boondock Saints(1999) Boston PD Detective Greenley is pegged as the "stupid" one, but at nearly every crime scene he makes an accurate call that Agent Smecker and fellow detectives writes off.
Alleyway: "I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these start popping up." -here he is talking about his serial crusher theory but it is accurate. A lot... Read on Reddit →
Top comment: "Riiiigght... People gotta be worried about getting stomped by <squints eyes menacingly and invokes..."
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