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‘Daybreakers’ is a reminder that not all vampires are goofy — movie review

Who’s in it?: Ethan Hawke (The Explorers, Reality Bites), Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire, Boondock Saints)

A wise man once said, “The only thing I hate about Santa Clara is all the God damned vampires…”  Well, sir, I loved your movie by the way (that was from The Lost Boys if you didn’t catch it); but I would put it this way, “The only thing I hate about movies these days is all the God damned vampires…”.

Obviously there are too many vampire movies these days…
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‘Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day’ (2009) movie review

Who’s in it?: Sean Patrick Flannery (Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Suicide Kings), Norman Reedus (Blade: Trinity, Pandorum), Billy Connolly (The X-Files: I Want to Believe, The Last Samurai)

Directed by: Troy Duffy

Now see, this is just the kind of bullshit that pisses me off about Hollywood.  I saw “The Boondock Saints” ten years ago or so and I loved it.  No, it’s not art; it’s not what you’d call a masterpiece.  But it’s funny as hell and has some great shoot outs and a hilarious performance by Willem Dafoe.  It took FOREVER for director Troy Duffy to make this sequel and dammit if he didn’t nearly ruin the the movie he made ten years ago with this unbelievable waste of time.

Seriously, it’s awful.  No, that doesn’t begin to explain it. The movie tries, and fails to duplicate what worked last time — and let’s face it the last one isn’t a masterpiece. This time it just doesn’t work. The main leads are okay, but seem bored and the supporting cast is just terrible. Julie fucking Benz (TV’s Dexter) is awful in this movie. Sadly, all she does is try and duplicate Willem Dafoe’s tactics from the first one and it just sucks.

Then the cameos start and you just wish the world would come to an end like literally you will welcome the end of humanity if it just meant you didn’t have to finish this movie….but fortunately, the movie ended before the world did.

1/10