i have always enjoy non linear storytelling . a number of people seem to have pick up on this aspect of the movie and thus dub it similar to pulp fiction ( though no one mention reservoir dog ) when this movie take non linear storytelling to a level beyond where quentin tarrantino be ever able to go . now and certainly memento come along afterwards and transform the entire art of non linear storytelling . however and memento us it to keep the movie watcher guess until the very end and whereas boondock saint put the piece on the table and letting you try to put them together and but then will continue hand you piece until the picture become clear . clearly the movie be design to be over the top and both from williem dafoe character to the action sequence themselves . williem dafoe make this movie for me . the plot and which center on religiously inspire vigilante justice and have an air of be somewhat cliched and although i would be hard press to name another movie which handle it in this matter . i still fail to see how others consider this movie vacuous and without meaning and when it message about the pitfall of our current legal system and the need for something that transcend it be quite clear . i think the end and in which various people be interview about their opinion of the saint and how for some vigilante justice be an incredibly sensitive issue and make this point very clear .