By Jared Curtis jared@dmcityview.com
‘The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day’
Directed by Troy Duffy
Rated R, 118 minutes
There are people who like “The Boondock Saints,” and there are those who despise it. I hate it and use it as a tool when starting film conversations. (If they like it, the conversation ends.) It was a film that blatantly copied everything before it but was released enough time after the films it copied for new audiences to think it was a revelation. So 10 years later, the ridiculously pompous yet untalented director Troy Duffy decided to make a sequel and, surprise, it’s another piece of crap. Once again the MacManus brothers (D-list actors Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus) seek revenge the only way they know how, by blasting away anyone in their path. If Duffy decides to make a third installment, I hope someone puts coins over my eyes so I never have to waste my sight on the MacManus brothers again. CV
‘Overnight’
Directed by Tony Montana & Mark Brian Smith
2003, Rated R, 82 minutes
“Overnight” is director Troy Duffy’s finest film, which is odd because he didn’t even direct it — he is the star. During the time it took to make his awful 1999 film “The Boondock Saints,” two of Duffy’s friends, Tony Montana and Mark Brian Smith, were recording the rise and fall. “The Boondock Saints” had so much buzz around it that Harvey Weinstein (then of Miramax Pictures) bought the screenplay, let Duffy direct and score the film with his terrible band, The Brood, and even bought Duffy his own bar. But soon they realized this so-called prodigy was just a talentless loser with a bad attitude. We all know someone like Duffy who thinks his or her answer is the right one about everything. It was fun to watch his world slowly crumble around him. Duffy makes “Overnight” a riveting documentary because he is perfect as the guy you love to hate. CV
