Righteous Kill tells the story of two veteran New York City homicide detectives who have been partners for 30 years. When one of them oversteps the bounds of the law, the other covers it up. Now they are on the trail of a serial killer who is killing known criminals, and when they figure out that the killer knows things that only a cop would know, tensions begin to rise as the two detectives deal with the fact that the killer may be much closer to them than they think.
Obviously one of the greatest acting partnerships ever put on screen would have to be the combination of Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. This is the third time the pair have been in a movie together. Unfortunately in The Godfather Part II they were in two separate stories and never shared screen time. In Michael Mann's crime masterpiece Heat, they finally appeared together, but many including myself feel that the coffee shop meeting was very anti-climatic. Now here they are together, finally on screen together through the majority of the film. Their on screen chemistry is great, and their performances are good. As a matter of fact, all the performances in this movie are good save for the mediocre acting of Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. The best part of this movie are watching these two acting legends work together. There's a good line of dialogue here and there, and the twist at the end of the film, though predictable, is well executed.
The bad news is that this film as a whole is incredibly weak. It offers nothing new, nothing noteworthy to give it praise for. I think DeNiro and Pacino could have picked something much better to appear in. As a cop movie, I had seen it all before. The movie isn't exciting in the slightest. It has a very basic plot, like a direct to video film or an episode of a crime TV show. I didn't believe the relationship between DeNiro and Carla Guigino's characters. DeNiro is in his mid-sixties, he shouldn't be having relationships with women in their thirties. I was able to partially enjoy the film due to the acting and the few good lines that were sprinkled throughout, but the script was written very badly for the most part, and the movie left my mind half an hour after leaving the theatre. This had the potential to be so much more.
5/10
Obviously one of the greatest acting partnerships ever put on screen would have to be the combination of Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. This is the third time the pair have been in a movie together. Unfortunately in The Godfather Part II they were in two separate stories and never shared screen time. In Michael Mann's crime masterpiece Heat, they finally appeared together, but many including myself feel that the coffee shop meeting was very anti-climatic. Now here they are together, finally on screen together through the majority of the film. Their on screen chemistry is great, and their performances are good. As a matter of fact, all the performances in this movie are good save for the mediocre acting of Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. The best part of this movie are watching these two acting legends work together. There's a good line of dialogue here and there, and the twist at the end of the film, though predictable, is well executed.
The bad news is that this film as a whole is incredibly weak. It offers nothing new, nothing noteworthy to give it praise for. I think DeNiro and Pacino could have picked something much better to appear in. As a cop movie, I had seen it all before. The movie isn't exciting in the slightest. It has a very basic plot, like a direct to video film or an episode of a crime TV show. I didn't believe the relationship between DeNiro and Carla Guigino's characters. DeNiro is in his mid-sixties, he shouldn't be having relationships with women in their thirties. I was able to partially enjoy the film due to the acting and the few good lines that were sprinkled throughout, but the script was written very badly for the most part, and the movie left my mind half an hour after leaving the theatre. This had the potential to be so much more.
5/10