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While I know Robert De Niro and Al Pacino had previously appeared in The Godfather, Part II in separate scenes, and in Heat only together in a few sequences, I hadn't watched those so this movie truly marked the first time I watched them together in the same film when I stumbled into it after the opening credits when recently watching on TV at a Filipino house. There's some funny pop culture references between them early on (I especially liked the one Pacino said about The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family!) and they chew the scenery admirably around the other players. Perhaps not a great film compared to their previous two I just mentioned but Righteous Kill was entertaining enough nearly from the start of the first scene that I managed to get to watch to the way it ended. So, yeah, that's a recommendation.
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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.
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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.
