Rated R for violence, language, brief nudityStarring Billy Connolly, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Julie Benz, Judd Nelson, Peter Fonda
Taking place 8 years after the events in of first film, the MacManus brothers have fled to Ireland and have laid low in a farmhouse with Papa MacManus. However, news reaches them that someone in Boston has killed an innocent priest using the same stylized execution rituals that the brothers are known for, framing them - after all these years, someone is trying to bring them out of hiding, and the wrong-doers of the city are nervous that this someone may succeed in bringing The Saints back.
Detectives Dolly, Duffy, and Greenly are back on the case as well to determine if this really was the work of The Saints, or just a copycat. Special Agent Eunice Bloom, who is the protege of former Agent Paul Smecker of the first film (we are told that Smecker had passed away in recent years) also steps in to put a Smecker-esque touch on determining whodunit.
"BDS2: All Saints Day" gives the audience some insight as to why the MacManus family does what they do and how they got their start. They also made this film as a segway to a third with the way it ended, making The Boondock Saints into a trilogy or maybe even a saga.
Also, Julie Benz's Special Agent Bloom, while a character in her own right and entertaining to watch in her retellings of how it happened, just doesn't do the part as well as William Dafoe's Special Agent Smecker did in the first film.
If you enjoyed the original, you'll probably either love this one, hate it, or leave the theater curious as to how the next will play out. 10 years in the making, while it was still entertaining, this one could have been a lot better.
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