I haven't done my research on the production of this actioner, but is Duffy really expecting us to take any of this seriously? Is Dafoe's character something of a cartoon or is he supposed to be seen as an understated genius? Did Duffy really think his introduction involving opera music would actually be something of a brilliant sequence? "The Boondock Saints" is ultimately an infantile and brutally sophomoric little production, the like of which could only be spewed by a man-child with a severe fetishistic tendency toward gruesome violence and Duffy takes every single chance in the film to express such a liking with scenes that are absolutely disgusting or over the top for the sake of being disgusting or over the top. The man doesn't really aim to make art, but instead just wants to throw as much splatter at us as possible not particularly displaying a talent for storytelling or dialogue or even action set pieces. In the end, "The Boondock Saints" is an embarrassing waste of time, and nothing even resembling the guiltiest of guilty pleasures. I'm all for action trash, but only when there's an inch of creativity or imagination behind it.

Amateurishly written and directed, poor editing, terrible acting, and a stand out performance from Willem Dafoe who actively seeks to destroy all former ideas of him being something of a respectable actor once, "The Boondock Saints" is complete absolutely horrid trash. And not the good kind.