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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.
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This thriller by Jon Avnet is mostly by the numbers, and its surprise ending, though effective, feels somewhat forced. Dec 9, 2008 | Full Review…
This thriller by Jon Avnet is mostly by the numbers, and its surprise ending, though effective, feels somewhat forced.
Joshua Katzman
Nearly everything about this film is a cliché. Nov 5, 2008
Nearly everything about this film is a cliché.
Ben Mankiewicz
Say it ain't so, Bobby and Al. Oct 18, 2008 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Say it ain't so, Bobby and Al.
Jason Matloff
The movie, which has more than 10 credited producers, feels like one of those slick, for-the-money projects Hollywood studios cook up via graph charts and marketing surveys. Oct 18, 2008 | Rating: 2/4
The movie, which has more than 10 credited producers, feels like one of those slick, for-the-money projects Hollywood studios cook up via graph charts and marketing surveys.
Rene Rodriguez
There's nothing righteous to be found here. Oct 18, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
There's nothing righteous to be found here.
James Berardinelli
They require a bigger stage, a sharper script and a more rigorous director. Without these, the long-awaited De Niro/Pacino show amounts to nothing so much as a novelty bout, a celebrity sparring session. Its sound and fury signifies very little. Sep 26, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
They require a bigger stage, a sharper script and a more rigorous director. Without these, the long-awaited De Niro/Pacino show amounts to nothing so much as a novelty bout, a celebrity sparring session. Its sound and fury signifies very little.
Xan Brooks
A serial killer movie without any threat, a cop thriller going through the motions, and De Niro and Pacino seem blunted by the piece's overall lack of bite. Feb 22, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A serial killer movie without any threat, a cop thriller going through the motions, and De Niro and Pacino seem blunted by the piece's overall lack of bite.
PJ Nabarro
There's nothing virtuous about Righteous Kill -- it's as predictable as summer rain. Nov 3, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
There's nothing virtuous about Righteous Kill -- it's as predictable as summer rain.
Kaleem Aftab
The stars were handed inferior material to work with and, at best, can only make this tired plot watchable. Mar 9, 2017 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
The stars were handed inferior material to work with and, at best, can only make this tired plot watchable.
Dennis Schwartz
A murky, muddled, miserable mess, Righteous Kill spends 101 minutes failing to achieve what Heat managed in just six. Oct 14, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A murky, muddled, miserable mess, Righteous Kill spends 101 minutes failing to achieve what Heat managed in just six.
Ali Gray
The worst about Righteous Kill is that there's probably a perfectly acceptable procedural thriller somewhere in the mountain of cliches and stupidity that riddle the film. Aug 30, 2009 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
The worst about Righteous Kill is that there's probably a perfectly acceptable procedural thriller somewhere in the mountain of cliches and stupidity that riddle the film.
Sonny Bunch
Imagine this conversation: A phone call between actor Bob De Niro and director Marty Scorsese. Bobby: Hello, Marty. I've been calling and texting, but you never answer. (Silence) Bobby: I'm talking to you. Are you talkin' to me? Are you talkin' to me? Feb 1, 2009 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
Imagine this conversation: A phone call between actor Bob De Niro and director Marty Scorsese. Bobby: Hello, Marty. I've been calling and texting, but you never answer. (Silence) Bobby: I'm talking to you. Are you talkin' to me? Are you talkin' to me?
Tony Macklin
All I'll say for the moment is: "Could have been so much better." Full review forthcoming.
Super Reviewer
Righteous Kill is an average police mystery/thriller, terribly disappointing considering the two acting giants who star in it. I always like Carla Guginio and John Lequizamo too, but they don't add much here. So, all these actors have done impressive work before, but director Jon Avnet doesn't get much done here. There is some intensity, but its all clichéd and formulaic. Really, is this the best everyone could do? I enjoyed watching Pacino and DeNiro (Rooster and Turk?) together, but RK doesn't compare to Heat, much less Godfather II. This is essentially a bigger budget episode of Law and Order.
ok...a pair of seasoned cops, Turk (Robert De Niro) and Rooster (Al Pacino) are on the case when a serial killer with a vigillante streak starts bumping off bad guys in New York City.They team up with younger detectives Perez and Riley and assisted by crime scene specilist Karen Corelli they work to uncover the killers identity with little more to go on than a poem left as a calling card at the scene of each crime. has an obvious twist~!
I thought it would be good, haven't seen them together since Heat. So I had extremely high expectations. This movie sucked. The acting was on top but it's terrible story can't save it. Grade: D
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