Genre: Action / Drama
Premise: Living a quiet life in Ireland with their father, the MacManus Brothers find out their favorite priest has been killed. The duo goes back to Boston to seek justice.
Writer: Troy Duffy (Boondock Saints)
About: After some slight hastle, the first film had a big enough cult following that a budget was found for the sequel. This was a very easy film birth.
I would run into this film every now and then in college. I never understood why it had such a cult following. It's very Irish. It's very violent. And it's very action flick oriented. Also there's alot of Irish music. But that's really about it. There's not too much memorable in terms of character or storyline. This script reads like the bad, fan fiction version of Reservoir Dogs.
The script opens with the MacManus brothers protecting a herd of sheep while the priest is killed by a local mob. And once this sort of nice thematic note is established, the script becomes progressively worse and worse. By the twenty page mark, my interest was completely lost. Know why? Boondock Saints 2 has one note is repeats over and over. This note is borrowed from the first film. And it's not even a very impressive note. A crime scene is discovered. The good guys visualize the scene over and over again to find out what happened. And the third act while trying to put some cap on this structure comes out of nowhere. We're supposed to commit to the murder of a priest we've barely seen. And that's just uninteresting. Resultantlly, the pay off is weak, the characters are undeveloped and while the script is rich in iconography that's not enough to save the story.
[X] Scooby Doo (Complete Crap)
Atilla (Poor, Few Redeeming Qualities)
Wedding Crashers (Mediocre)
Hot Rod (Good)
Definitely Maybe (Pretty Darn Good)
Isla Roles: Isla's The Lookout is much much better than this film and in the same genre.
Tip: Nothing. Nothing at all. This is a piece of crap. Here are two don'ts: don't overuse exclamation points in scene description and keep music cues moderate at the very most.
Premise: Living a quiet life in Ireland with their father, the MacManus Brothers find out their favorite priest has been killed. The duo goes back to Boston to seek justice.
Writer: Troy Duffy (Boondock Saints)
About: After some slight hastle, the first film had a big enough cult following that a budget was found for the sequel. This was a very easy film birth.
I would run into this film every now and then in college. I never understood why it had such a cult following. It's very Irish. It's very violent. And it's very action flick oriented. Also there's alot of Irish music. But that's really about it. There's not too much memorable in terms of character or storyline. This script reads like the bad, fan fiction version of Reservoir Dogs.
The script opens with the MacManus brothers protecting a herd of sheep while the priest is killed by a local mob. And once this sort of nice thematic note is established, the script becomes progressively worse and worse. By the twenty page mark, my interest was completely lost. Know why? Boondock Saints 2 has one note is repeats over and over. This note is borrowed from the first film. And it's not even a very impressive note. A crime scene is discovered. The good guys visualize the scene over and over again to find out what happened. And the third act while trying to put some cap on this structure comes out of nowhere. We're supposed to commit to the murder of a priest we've barely seen. And that's just uninteresting. Resultantlly, the pay off is weak, the characters are undeveloped and while the script is rich in iconography that's not enough to save the story.
[X] Scooby Doo (Complete Crap)
Atilla (Poor, Few Redeeming Qualities)
Wedding Crashers (Mediocre)
Hot Rod (Good)
Definitely Maybe (Pretty Darn Good)
Isla Roles: Isla's The Lookout is much much better than this film and in the same genre.
Tip: Nothing. Nothing at all. This is a piece of crap. Here are two don'ts: don't overuse exclamation points in scene description and keep music cues moderate at the very most.
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