The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

Apparently, some producer was willing to put up with director Troy Duffy’s sociopathic narcissism and fund the sequel of his 1991 cult classic, The Boondock Saints. It picks up eight years after the original with the brothers McManus (Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus returning to their roles) being baited by the murder of a priest to return to Beantown to pick up where they left off. What follows is more of the original, and less. The more is long lengths of yammering as Duffy struggles to come up with more quotable lines, and the less is the giddy excess of the original. Nothing in the sequel matches the big “Holy shit!” moment (involving one unfortunate cat); the black humor is more forced; and the shoot-’em-ups are a pale shadow of their antecedents. But it is what it is, and the rabid fans of the original will probably enjoy a chance to see their heroes spout more Latin and pop copious rounds in slo-mo. Everyone else has better things to do. Tinseltown. Rated R