Righteous Kill
Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, Carla GuginoDirector: Jon Avnet
Studio: Anchor Bay - ITN
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release: January 6th 2009
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Turk and Rooster, two aging NYPD detectives who have been longtime partners are faced with a serial killer who is murdering sociopathic criminals. They both have personal issues, and when they start working with a younger team, Perez and Riley, tensions between the pairs of partners is inevitable, especially since Turk is now living with Perez's ex-girlfriend, also a homicide detective.
User Reviews
Actually a Good Movie, Don't Worry About Negative Reviews - Rating: 5/5
Al Pacino and De Niro are great in this film. I did not think the plot was predictable at all. See the entire movie before making opinions and you'll be in for a realistic crime thriller with a welcoming twist. The filming and camera work is nicely done. 5 stars is given due to the vast majority of low ratings. This movie is much better than 88 Minutes (also with Al Pacino). Definite rent if you like the genre or the actors.
Rent it. - Rating: 3/5
This is definitely entertaining. De Niro and Pacino are great. It's a clever story and there are surprises. But it just doesn't have the greatness that would bring you back to it and require you to watch it again and again. Rent it. Stream it. I don't think you need to buy it.
Save your money - Rating: 2/5
Take two of Hollywood's most capable actors, both with lustrous careers behind them and... throw them together in a boring movie with a mechanical predictable script devoid of worthwhile dialog or anything at all that would enable them to shine. Add uninspired camerawork, tedious editing and mundane direction and you have Righteous Kill.
DeNiro in particular should be brave enough to seek out scripts worthy of his talent. Instead he's wasting the years with third-rate sausage-machine drivel like this and like Meet The Fockers. What's the man thinking about? Unlike 95% of Hollywood stars he can really act when he wants to. Shame he's not making the kinds of movie that would be worthy of his talent. Unless you are very undemanding indeed or a certifiable DeNiro groupie this is a movie to avoid. Even the so-called "plot twist" at the end was boringly predictable - I called it after only 27 minutes into the film.
Pretty lame... - Rating: 2/5
Up until the midpoint of the movie I was considering to rate it as high as 3 or 4 stars as it was interesting enough. However, from that point forth the movie really started to drag and I was certain I knew what the "surprise ending" was going to be. Sure enough, I was right! Not only was the surprise ending not a surprise for me, but the movie went real soft down the stretch. Acting was decent but the writing weak and shallow. Other than Pacino and De Niro there isn't anything special about this movie. If they weren't in it, it would be just another diddly poo cop/serial killer movie. And for me, even with De Niro and Pacino, that's all it was.
Third time for Alpacino and Deniro together, which always makes a good movie! - Rating: 4/5
Third time for Alpacino and Deniro together, which always makes a good movie!
First the Godfather, then Heat, and now Righteous Kill that has both Robert Deniro and Alpacino together.
Deniro and Alpacino are two homicide detectives that are nearing retirement. They are asked to investigate into serial killings of ex-convicts who escaped punishment due to cracks in the judicial system. As a result this killer wipes them off the streets.
Throughout the movie we watch a recorded tape of Deniro confessing his murders that try to make you think he is the mysterious killer, only for us to discover in the end that he is not.
Quite interesting movie. I just knew it all along that Deniro was not the killer. I thought there must be a twist in the end because it was too easy and direct. It came out to be the case afterall.
