And shepherds we shall be
For Thee, my Lord, for Thee
Power hath descended forth from Thy hand
That our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command
So we shall flow a river forth to Thee
And teeming with souls shall it ever be
In nomine Patri, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti

So I finally broke down and rented Smokin’ Aces this weekend and I gotta say that I was highly disappointed. The plot made absolutely no sense whatsoever and the cast while interesting, really did nothing for me. The only thing that sort of made up for the lack of direction that was this tragedy of a movie was the ending. I say all of this to make a point. The point is that many times, it would appear that the Hollywood machine would want us to believe that just because a film has a number of big name stars in it, we should excuse poor plot development because Alicia Keys is playing a bi-sexual hit woman.

What does all of this have to do with today’s pick. In a word everything. The movie I picked today is an older film (limited release in 1999) but to me does everything right in the form of a senseless action flick.

In this movie, what you end up with is a “guy” movie with a lot killing, violence, and foul language. But what you also get is a film with a semi-plausible story instead of random action scenes pieced together with just a hint of plot.

When you have a action/revenge/caper flick, everything needs to at least make sense on some level. With the Boondock Saints what you have is two brothers becoming vigilante killers after they happen to kill three mob soldiers in self defense. What follows is a story that makes you ask yourself, “if you go out and rid the world of criminals by killing them, are you any better than the criminals you dispatched?“