Stars: Curtis Jackson, Carla Gugino, 50 Cent, Dan Futterman, John Leguizamo, Trilby Glover, Donnie Wahlberg, Robert De Niro, Brian Dennehy, Al Pacino

Director: Jon Avnet

Summary: For those left unsatisfied by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino's near-lack of shared screen time in Michael Mann's masterful HEAT, RIGHTEOUS KILL promises a prominent pairing of the two legendary actors. De Niro and Pacino star as two cops who team up to catch a serial killer in this crime thriller from director Jon Avnet (FRIED GREEN TOMATOES, 88 MINUTES).<BR><BR><BR>Carla Gugino (SPY KIDS, SNAKE EYES), John Leguizamo (WILLIAM SHAKEPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET, MOULIN ROUGE!), Donnie Wahlberg (THE SIXTH SENSE, SAW 2) and Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson co-star in this compelling thriller.

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Righteous Kill pairs two cinematic icons whose previous screen collaboration, Michael Mann's 1995 Heat, was absolutely electrifying despite minimal time together in a long movie. Now in their mid-60s, De Niro and Pacino are playing veteran cops who, despite being grizzled, should look much younger than these actors. The incongruent casting makes the dark story improbable from the get-go, and things get worse as dialogue by screenwriter Russell Gurwitz quickly sounds like a parody of vintage cop movie cliches. It's a strain to find anything that works. The two leads play longtime detectives and partners whose weariness with rapists, murderers, pedophiles and other villains appears linked to the acts of a serial killer taking out bad guys who got away with heinous crimes. A videotape confession by De Niro's tightly-coiled Turk--who has been seeking the killer with Pacino's Rooster--would seem to establish his ties to the events. But the movie isn't over until it's over, assuming one is still with the movie after plodding along with its facsimile of noir conviction. Director Jon Avnet never gets a handle on Righteous Kill's gritty heart, superficially pushing suspense along with heavy-handed editing, and adding unpersuasive sauce in the form of Turk's somewhat S&M sexual relationship with a female cop (Carla Gugino). Giving the proceedings sort of a boost are Donnie Wahlberg and John Leguizamo as a younger pair of sleuths working the same case. This could easily have been a better movie with those two in the leads. --Tom Keogh

Main Language:	English
Year:	2008
Release Date:	September 25, 2008
Runtime:	101 minutes
Certification:
Keywords:	Kill, English, Righteous, Thriller, Psychological
Genre:	Thriller