The Boondock Saints

A macho bloodbath with a lot of juvenile humor and fake Catholic mysticism...

Satire or self-parody would be vastly preferable to the film's unironic endorsement of outlaw justice, but you'd be hard pressed to find anything resembling irony or subversiveness in this exercise in lovingly rendered ultra-violence.

[A] dim-witted, aesthetically clunky Tarantino clone.

More interested in finding fresh ways to stage execution scenes than in finding meaning behind the human urge for self-appointed righting of wrongs, pic is stuffed with effects that have no lasting impact.

The entire production feels uneven, shoddy, and offensively oxymoronic.

An enthralling gangster epic, a solid action film, and a jolting vigilante-justice crime caper.

The Boondock Saints, on one level, is a really great direct-to-video cult film. Stylish, defiantly endearing, and even borderline iconic.

The Boondock Saints has ended up a cheap looking B-movie that's pretentious, derivative, and sorely lacking a sense of fun.

Duffy created an unapologetically bloody, brutal and bizarre action film

Willem Dafoe's portrayal of the conflicted homosexual FBI agent is overacted to such an extent that it is hilarious, amazing and entertaining. His is an unforgettable character.