Boondock Saints

The Boondock Saints When the city you call home is tainted with evil and the law seems to over look it; do you take charge? Run by religion, held up by their family, and an overwhelming urge to rid the city of Boston of evil. They’re what the media came to dub as “The Saints”. The Boondock Saints is a movie about religion, family, and vigilante justice. The movie starts off with two very religious Irish brothers Connor and Murphy McManus who decide God has chosen them to rid the city of Boston of sinners. They begin their calling merely by accident, when a couple of Russian mob members cause a fight in their buddy Docs bar; resulting in Connor launching a toilet off the fire escape and jumping off to save his brother Murphy. Agent Paul Smecker saw their actions clearly as self-defense and they were let off the hook. During one of their killings they encountered their buddy David Della Rocco who then accompanied them on several other missions until their final killing together where Italian mob boss Papa Joe Yakavetta killed him in front of the brothers. Agent Smecker realized that he agreed with what the brothers were doing and later decided to help them in secret. Connor and Murphy may have lost a dear friend but they gained back a father they thought they’d lost a long time ago. He had been sent to kill them, with no knowledge that they were his sons, but when he heard them say the old family prayer as they mourned Rocco he joined in and that’s when it dawned on all of them. Three months later during Papa Joes hearing the brothers and their father burst in the courtroom and announce themselves to the world with the grand finale of spilling Papa Joes blood on the courtroom floor. The first scene in the movie that showed religion was the opening scene in the church. The priest starts to tell a story about a girl named Kitty Genovese who was stabbed to death in front of her neighbors who stood by and did nothing about it. Connor and Murphy then approach the