The Boondock Saints

Cast

* Willem Dafoe as FBI Special Agent Paul Smecker
* Sean Patrick Flanery as Connor MacManus
* Norman Reedus as Murphy MacManus
* David Della Rocco as David Della 'Rocco / Funny Man
* Billy Connolly as Il Duce/Noah MacManus
* David Ferry as Detective Dolly
* Brian Mahoney as Detective Duffy
* Bob Marley as Detective Greenly
* Carlo Rota as Don "Papa" Joe Yakavetta
* Ron Jeremy as Vincenzo Lapazzi
* Gerard Parkes as Doc

Plot

The film opens with Irish brothers Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy (Norman Reedus) MacManus attending Mass at a Catholic Church, where the priest mentions the fate of Kitty Genovese. Next, while celebrating St. Patrick's Day with friends, the two get into a bar brawl with three Russian mobsters who wanted to evict the pub, as a result the Russians receive a sound beating. The morning after, two of the Russians seek revenge on Connor and Murphy, who kill their attackers in self-defense.

FBI Special Agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe) is assigned to the case and surmises that the death of the Russians was not a professional hit, but probable self-defense. The brothers decide to clear their names and arrive at the police station, where they find that the police and local news reporters see them as heroes. To avoid press attention the brothers decide to spend the night in a holding cell, where they receive an apparent vision from God telling them to hunt down wicked men so that the innocent will flourish.

Connor and Murphy resolve to rid Boston of evil men, with their friend and former mob errand boy Rocco (David Della Rocco) eventually joining them to help. Connor learns of a meeting of Russian syndicate bosses at a hotel from a pager taken from one of the dead Russian mobsters and the brothers quickly kill nine bosses and underbosses—saving the leader, Yuri Petrova—later referred to as "Fat/Fag Man" for last. They recite their family prayer and kill him with two gunshots to the back of the head—the bullets cross and go out his eyes. They place coins on the eyes of all nine bodies, as if to pay the toll to cross the River Styx.

After hunting down Vincenzo Lipazzi (Ron Jeremy) in a porn shack, underboss of the Yakavetta crime family, the three vigilantes undertake a series of increasingly violent missions, cleansing the city of the most vicious criminals. In response to this threat, Giuseppe "Papa Joe" Yakavetta (Carlo Rota) contracts the feared hitman, Il Duce (Billy Connolly) to deal with the vigilantes. After killing a criminal at his house, the three men are ambushed by Il Duce. Although they manage to chase Il Duce away, the three men suffer from wounds, one of which loses Rocco part of his finger.

Hours later as the police conduct an investigation on the spot of where the firefight took place, Smecker finds the part of the finger that Rocco lost. Smecker decides to do an independent investigation to see who was behind the gun battle, and is able to track the evidence down to Rocco and his two allies. He has a crisis of conscience, And after receiving advice from a reluctant priest (who was under the "persuasion" of Rocco), Smecker decides to help the three men.

Later the brothers and Rocco infiltrate the Yakavetta headquarters to finish off the family, followed by Smecker who dresses in drag to gain admittance. Smecker kills two men, before being knocked unconscious by Il Duce. Meanwhile, the brothers are captured, and Rocco is shot and killed by Papa Joe. As the brothers say their family prayer over Rocco, Il Duce enters the room. It is revealed that Il Duce is the brothers' father Noah. He joins them in their mission to kill all wrongdoers.

Three months later, Papa Joe is sent to trial. However the reporters on-scene anticipate his acquittal. The brothers and Il Duce, aided by Agent Smecker and three detectives, infiltrate the trial, unmasked, and make a speech stating that they intend to eradicate evil wherever they find it before the three men recite their family prayer and kill Papa Joe. The media dubs the three as "the Saints", and the movie ends with various candid interviews with the public, reflecting on the question "Are the Saints ultimately good, or evil?"

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