Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, The

Boston Globe Ty Burr

The result isn’t art but it is an improvement: a scurrilous, lowdown, sub-Tarantino action comedy that, unlike the original, doesn’t make you want to claw your eyes out. How’s that for praise?

The New York Times Mike Hale

Like its predecessor, All Saints Day will, if nothing else, be a cult item for Roman Catholic schoolboys; the next sequel, blatantly set up, should arrive no later than 2019.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

The only truly ugly side to this self-consciously grimy movie is the streak of Neanderthal humor. Operatic overacting is funny. Racist and homophobic jokes? Not so much.

New York Post Kyle Smith

You wouldn't call The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day a taut thriller. More like a fleshy, messy, jangled frenzy of shootouts and much discussion about the mechanics of romantic entanglements that bloom between prison inmates.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole

The Boondock Saints II does, from time to time, display a vulgar charm. Or maybe it just wears you out.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

After nine years, Duffy has coughed up a sequel, and like the first movie it's energetic, proudly juvenile, and reverently derivative.

Los Angeles Times Robert Abele

Duffy tamps down his best instincts -- occasional wry humor and the appealingly oddball supporting character (Willem Dafoe last time, a bug-eyed Clifton Collins Jr. here as the MacManus' admiring Latino cohort) -- and doubles up on his worst: homophobic gags, tedious '90s-era slo-mo shootouts and overwrought gangster tropes.

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

Although the Tarantino influence still is tangible, this time around Duffy reveals himself to also be a big Francis Ford Coppola fan, but the cartoonish end result plays like "Godfather III" meets the Three Stooges.

Variety Peter Debruge

Feels larger in scope yet sorely lacking in originality.

Village Voice Aaron Hillis

John Woo outgrew stylizing movies like this in the '90s, but Duffy is still chasing his perfect slide-and-shoot, except now with more self-satisfied posturing, awkward pop-culture referencing, casual homophobia and racism, and the most vulgar co-opting of religious iconography this side of Dan Brown.

Entertainment Weekly Adam Markovitz

Earns points only for being remarkably unself-conscious about its across-the-board ineptitude.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

An idiotic ode to macho horseshite (to employ an ancient Irish word). It is however distinguished by superb cinematography.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

Just the same auld same auld.

Time Out New York Keith Uhlich

Only Billy Connolly, as the boys’ way-of-the-gun pa, brings a smidgen of sobering gravitas to the proceedings, though he can hardly counter the pounding hangover brought on by all the mock-virtuous butchery.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Sam Adams

Duffy's inept command of actors, not to mention his utterly juvenile morality and his comically clumsy use of religious iconography, should keep all but the diehards away.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Isn't for everyone, obviously; it might not be for anyone, come to think of it.