Directed by Troy Duff
Starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Billy Connolly, Julie Benz & Clifton Collins Jr
Rated MA
Score 5.5/6

The MacManus brothers are living a quiet life in Ireland with their father, but when they learn a beloved priest has been killed by the Mafia, the duo return to Boston to bring justice to those responsible.

Okay, it has been awhile since I last revisited a movie and considering back when I was younger and prettier, I recall that I was blown away by the original Boondock Saints and eagerly awaited the release of the sequel, it seems fitting that I review All Saints Day again 9 years later. On the anniversary of my original review.

All Saints Day just doesn’t have the same flair as the first movie that was released back in 1999. I suppose the easy way to explain this would be to say that of course there is going to be a difference between the first and second movie a director directs. They are probably going to want to do more with their movie, especially if you take into consideration that All Saints Day has a slightly bigger budget. But personally, I think it has more to do with the casting of Julie Benz as Special Agent Eunice Bloom and the different approach she has to a crime scene then her mentor Smecker, you just have to look to Bloom’s explanation of the shootout at The Prudential and how the sequence was shot. Which is one of the scenes that sets All Saints Day apart from the first movie.

I loved Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery as the MacManus brothers and I will go on record and say that this was the movie that made me enjoy Clifton Collins Jr’s work. I found myself laughing a lot of the same jokes and I still love the dream sequence and the Man-ifesto speech towards the end of the movie. However, I can’t help but think that in about another ten years that All Saints Day might be considered to be an ‘outdated’ movie because there is a degree of cringe worthiness to some lines of dialogue.