| Description: | Praise be to patron saint of cult film sequels
Bold prediction: At his current glacial pace of progress, Troy Duffy is likely to write and direct the great Irish-American payback movie sometime in the year 2049.
In the meantime, there's the craptacular The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, which improves upon its 1999 predecessor in ways only scientists, hardy critics and rabid fans could verify. You remember the unfortunate cat? Yes, it's back for a better laugh, but blink and you'll miss it.
The fact that this movie even exists, in all its profane, racist, misogynistic, sacrilegious, bullet-ridden and insanely stupid glory, is testament both to Duffy's tenacity and to a resurrection born of DVD cult viewings of The Boondock Saints original.
The first film had a devil of a time getting seen at theatres. theatres and none at all in Canada (even though much of it had been filmed in Toronto, as was the sequel).
Duffy had been a protegé of Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein, |