I'd had this movie recommended to me so many times I decided to finally sit down and watch it. I had absolutely no idea what it was about, except that maybe it was vaguely religious and that it had a major cult following. So imagine my surprise when I read about what its about and that Willem Dafoe stars as a gay cop in it. But i gave it a try....
....And hated it. I didn't get it. I want to know why people like it. So, let me try and figure out what I didn't like. It wasn't the violence, I thought they did the shoot outs nicely, but maybe because its about 15 years old and we're used to complex shootouts now, but it was just boring mostly. Was it the subject matter? I don't think so, vengeful brothers sounds alright to me. However, there was very very thin connection between most of the scenes, and all we knew most of the time was just that they were going to kill people.
The character of Rocco bugged the hell out of me though.I hated him, I didn't find him funny, I was kind of confused what he was doing. I didn't care at all when he died, and furthermore I was glad because he kept screwing everything up for the brothers all the time! Their relationship, uber-brother love was the only good part of the movie.
Oh and Willem Dafoe in drag was pretty funny. If he was in a scene I payed attention. Billy Connolly was not in it enough and I'm not sure why he wasn't in more. I was bored most of the time, I didn't like it. Tell me why?
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