The Boondock Saints Review

So I recently watched The Boondock Saints for the first time. I kept hearing how "amazing" this movie is, but honestly after watching it I thought it was good...not great. The film is about two Irish/Catholic brothers, Connor and Murphy(played by Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus), from Boston who decide to become vigilantes by killing anyone they believe is evil. Ultimately, the point of the film is to bring up the question of whether or not killing evil people is good or bad. Thus, the film had multiple violent action scenes, which were very well directed. My favorite aspect of the movie was how they showed the aftermath of the action sequences through crime scene investigations. William Dafoe's character, FBI Agent Paul Smecker, leads the investigations of the "Saints" killings and uses clues to figure out what happened. The film then shows what actually happened in comparison to Agent Smecker's assumptions thorough flashbacks of the "Saint's" murders. This worked really well because it was interesting to see the result of the crime scene first, then guess along with Agent Smecker with what really happened, and then see the result through some great action sequences. Although the movie had an interesting story and cool action scenes, I found some gripes with the film that kept it from being great. While I liked the brothers/Saints in the movie, pretty much the rest of the supporting cast was really annoying.The "Saints" had a partner in crime, Rocco(played by David Della Rocco), was supposed to be the comic relief in the story but I found him more annoying than funny. Also, I found William Dafoe's character to be distracting because of how overly dramatic he was in the film. Don't get me wrong though, The Boondock Saints is a good movie in regards to story and action, but the acting could have been better.