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?Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
An idiotic ode to macho horseshite (to employ an ancient Irish word). It is however distinguished by superb cinematography.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Adam Markovitz
Earns points only for being remarkably unself-conscious about its across-the-board ineptitude.Read Full Review »
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