The movie is hectic, exhausting, and baffling.
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09/22/08
Righteous Kill (2008)
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Reviews Counted:137
Fresh:28
Rotten:109
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Al Pacino and Robert De Niro do their best to elevate this dowdy genre exercise, but even these two greats can't resuscitate the film's hackneyed script.
Theatrical Release:25-09-2008
Synopsis: Academy Award® winners Robert De Niro (Raging Bull) and Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman) star as a pair of veteran New York City police detectives on the trail of a vigilante serial killer in the... [More]
Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis Jackson, Carla Gugino
Director: Jon Avnet
Reviews for Righteous Kill
...if the movie starred Al Schwartz and Robert Greenblatt, it would hardly be worth watching.
09/19/08
Even if it were pretty good - which it's not - Righteous Kill would fall a distant third in the rankings of films in which Al Pacino and Robert De Niro both appeared.
09/19/08
Righteous Kill isn't so much bad as it is played out. No wonder the film's faded stars seem to fit right in.
09/18/08
Am I the only one who's concerned that two of America's greatest living actors are spending their golden years making mediocre to bad movies?
09/17/08
It's not much fun to see these two reduced to Mad TV parodies of themselves. In the right movie, they'd stop coasting on their legends long enough to remind us how they became them.
09/17/08
Here's a mess of a movie that has two things going for it: The star power of its two leads.
09/16/08
Ultimately, almost everything in the film has been done better before. But it still hits enough of the right notes, and even when they're phoning things in, De Niro and Pacino are still better than most other actors.
09/16/08
Robert De Niro is having sex with Carla Gugino. I know. It's like witnessing a traffic accident where an Edsel keeps slamming into a shiny red Corvette.
09/16/08
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09/16/08
Good in the way that makes it worth catching on basic cable during the commercial breaks of something better.
09/15/08
If it weren't for the presence of De Niro and Pacino, this would be just another generic straight-to-DVD police drama. It would probably star Tim Daly and Stephen Baldwin.
09/15/08
With the focus on odd and again, obvious twists and turns there wasn't enough time to sit back and watch two of the greatest actors of our time.
09/15/08
If the big draw here for you is seeing Pacino and De Niro paired on screen 'Righteous Kill' won't disappoint.
09/15/08
It took 40 years, but Robert De Niro finally has made a movie that enables him to utter this line: "Rambo the skateboard pimp was my tenth kill."
09/15/08
A bleak and morally meaningless cop flick.
09/13/08
This cliche-filled crime thriller adds up to little more than a slow-paced episode of "Law & Order" with the real culprit telegraphed so far in advance that there's little suspense.
09/13/08
Tough gravelly voiced Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, playing NYPD detectives, are the selling point for 'Righteous Kill.'
09/13/08
Old pros battle brutal vigilante, muddled story.
09/12/08
Why take on new characters when instead, they can play cops? How cutting edge. With a plastic butter knife.
09/12/08
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