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Here's a film that really surprised me, something that was more engagingly entertaining as it went along, though a slight bit messy. I love movies like that. How many films have there been, where serial killers are cops? Not many, where I found the whole experience refreshingly original, and admirable. Pacino and Deniro reunite as veteran cops, working a case involving the murders of scumbags who've evaded jail, where justice has failed one too many times. This thriller throws in an old trick, among other cliché'd ones, making you really believe early in the piece, Deniro's really the guy, in a lot of consistent flashback interviews where he's venting and describing the atrocities and unsavory acts of these dead executed scumbags. With thriller tricks like this, you know it must be someone else, or later, you rethink, may'be it is Deniro. May'be it is. Being hip to this, like a few other smart minds, I was right earlier with my answer. But as the movie progresses, a few other suspects, surfaced, even one unlawful party, which had me pointing fingers at these few, even our duo's aging, tired Captain (Dennehy), momentarily. We have a warring cop duo working with finest in the forms of Wahlberg senior and Leguizamo, who has a hard on for Deniro's character Turk. I must say RK opened up, like a few cheesy and really bad b grade pics started, and I was worried, but man, this film gets you in. I really found Pacino, lost with his character, trying to find it, as he didn't really seem in the mind set, as though he was clinging to a former role, and saying, "Well being such a great actor, I have to away with it. Playing it down, like he did in 88 Minutes, he really wasn't offering much to the role here as Rooster, Turk's best friend and partner, which you will see as far as his characterization goes, really puts the thriller element, at risk. I really found this film though, such an entertaining one, although it's not gonna remembered in these acting legends filmographies. But it was a chance, again to see these two acting greats, play off each other, which kind of hoping it would be in a better film than this. Oz's Trilby Glover, is just another prime example of HOTNESS.
juneebuggy
This was okay. I know they were trying to recapture the magic of Heat but somehow this just never quite grabbed me. Al Pacino does a great job and it was fun seeing him back together with Robert DeNiro but ultimately this was just another routine cop movie, pretty average considering.They play partners of 30 years who should be ready for retirement, but aren't. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, who appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars? I will admit to not predicting the twist at the end (which was pretty cool and cleverly disguised) however bottom line these two screen legends were just too old for their roles. We needed 40 year old cops not 60+ year olds. As police detectives they should have or would have been retired. Heat is still a great movie though 04.11
inspectors71
I barely know why I do things, let alone why great actors and other movie stars agree to do movies that diminish them in the eyes of their audiences. Therefore, I will not attempt to speculate why DeNiro and Pacino agreed to work together on Righteous Kill, a movie so bad that the only two things to recommend it are the always luscious Carla Gugino and the high-contrast "Reservoir Dogs"-style movie poster.Snip this R-rated yawner down to a TV-14 (the way I saw it) and the viewer gets to sit through 88 minutes of incomprehensible incoherence. DeNiro's face is fascinating to look at (because there's something clearly dangerous right under the surface. Pacino's hair has a mind of its own. Gugino has an old-fashioned sex-symbol vibe. Brian Dehenney, Donnie Wahlberg, and John Leigezumo are all fun to watch, but they have thankless jobs. And that, folks, is that. All they is and they ain't no mo'.
gwnightscream
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Carla Gugino, John Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg and Brian Dennehy star in this 2008 crime thriller. This focuses on New York veteran cops, Turk (De Niro) and his partner, Rooster (Pacino) who pursue a serial killer who leaves poems on each of his victims who have committed crimes. Leguizamo (Spawn) and Wahlberg (Saw II) play cops, Perez and Riley who suspect that the killer could be a cop. Soon, the evidence points to Turk who knows the victims and it could be him or someone else revealed to be the killer. Dennehy (Cocoon) plays Hingis and Gugino (Sin City) plays Karen who is Turk's girlfriend. This isn't as good as "Heat," but not bad and it's nice to see De Niro and Pacino together again. I recommend this.
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